survivors

Charter plane crashes in Pakistan, no survivors (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - A small plane with at least 21 people on board chartered to international oil company ENI crashed after taking off from Pakistan’s Karachi airport on Friday, killing all on…

‘Alive’ survivors to Chilean mining kin: Be strong (AP)

September 4th, 2010

Gustavo Zerbino, Uruguayan survivor of a 1972's plane crash in the Chilean Andes, right, embraces Maria Segovia, sister of trapped miner Dario Segovia at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Zerbino and three other survivors of the plane crash have been called to Chile to share their experience with relatives of the trapped miners. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - Former rugby players from Uruguay who survived more than two months of isolation in the snow-covered Andes met on Saturday with some of the relatives of 33 trapped…

Pakistan flood survivors protest slow aid (AP)

August 16th, 2010

Angry flood survivors gesture as they block a highway demanding food, shelter and water in Sukkar, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. They protested slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive binternational/b relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased…

US Marines arrive to help Pakistan flood survivors (AP)

August 12th, 2010

Flood affected people wade through water to reach safer areas in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Pakistani flood survivors already short on food and water began the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday, a normally festive, social time marked this year by misery and fears of an uncertain future.(AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - A shipload of U.S. Marines and helicopters arrived to boost relief efforts in flooded Pakistan on Thursday, but the prime minister told The Associated Press his country needs…

Little hope for more survivors of China floods (AP)

August 11th, 2010

A man wearing a mask to protect from the smell looks over an area destroyed by a mud slide swept that into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Heavy rains Wednesday lashed a remote section of northwestern China where weekend flooding killed at least 702 people, as hopes of finding more survivors faded and crews worked…

Pakistani flood survivors salvage little they have (AP)

August 2nd, 2010

A Pakistan army soldier helps people affected by floods walk over a temporary make-shift bridge built by Pakistan army following heavy floods washed away the bridge in Chakdara, near Mingora in Swat valley of Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.  The government has deployed thousands of soldiers and civilian rescue workers to save an estimated 28,000 people trapped by the floodwaters, distribute food and collect the bodies of the victims. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - Relief efforts in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest picked up pace Monday, but survivors complained about government inaction — a worrying sign for authorities seeking public support for the fight…

Congo: burn survivors recover from tanker blast (AP)

July 4th, 2010

An inhabitant of the town of Sange, eastern Congo, walks past the burned out wreckage of a tanker truck Saturday, July 3, 2010, that was involved in a accident Friday night. The tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed scores of bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday. (AP Photo/Marc Hofer)AP - Moaning and badly burned survivors from a massive tanker blast that killed at least 230 people recovered in a crumbling eastern Congo hospital Sunday, two days after the…

No survivors found at Afghan airline crash site (AP)

May 21st, 2010

Torn-apart wreckage of a commercial airliner that disappeared Monday while flying over Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains with 44 people on board , at 13,500 feet (4,100 meters) high in Shakar Darah district of Kabul province, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 20, 2010. The Antonov-24, operated by Pamir Airways, was flying from the northern city of Kunduz to Kabul when air traffic controllers lost track of it north of the capital. Three British citizens and an American were among those on board. (AP Photo)AP - Searchers found no survivors Friday among 44 people on board an Afghan commercial airliner that crashed this week on a remote mountain north of the capital of Kabul,…

More survivors of Mexico ambush emerge from bush (AP)

April 29th, 2010

People stand over the casket containing the body of human rights activist Betty Carino during a wake ceremony in Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico, late Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Earlier in the day, Carino was riding with a caravan of European and Mexican activists carrying humanitarian aid when they were attacked by gunmen outside the town of San Juan Copala, in southern Oaxaca state. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Hernandez)AP - More survivors emerged Thursday from the countryside where a convoy of Mexican and European rights activists and journalists was ambushed two days earlier in an attack that killed…

China quake survivors sleep in cold outdoors (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Survivors stand beside their quake-damaged homes in Yushu county, western China's Qinghai province, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Rescue teams fought gusty winds and altitude sickness Thursday as survivors faced a second night outside in freezing weather after strong earthquakes left more than 600 dead and 9,000 hurt in a mountainous Tibetan area of western China. (AP Photo) **  CHINA OUT **AP - Armed with life detectors, rescuers searched for survivors Friday more than 48 hours after an earthquake leveled homes in western China, killing at least 760 people. Many survivors…