AP Week in Pictures: Asia
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ByThe Related Press December 1, 2023, 2:33 AM North Koreans line as much as vote for a neighborhood election at a polling station within the central district of Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. North Korea held elections for native authorities representatives. (AP Picture/Cha Music Ho) The Related Press Nov. 24-30, 2023 Sikhs lit … Read more

Indian rescuers pull out all 41 workers who were trapped in a tunnel for 17 days
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UTTARKASHI, India — Forty-one development staff emerged dazed and smiling Tuesday from a collapsed tunnel in northern India the place that they had spent the final 17 days — a contented ending to an ordeal that had gripped the nation and led to an enormous rescue operation that overcame a number of setbacks. Locals, kin … Read more

Rescuers attempt manual digging to free 41 Indian workers trapped for over two weeks in tunnel
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NEW DELHI — Authorities in India mentioned on Monday they have been set to start handbook digging of what they hoped was the ultimate part of rescuing the 41 building staff trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel within the nation’s north for over two weeks. This got here a day after an try and drill … Read more

Digging to rescue 41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in India halted after machine breaks
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NEW DELHI — Makes an attempt to achieve 41 development staff caught in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for 2 weeks have been once more stymied Saturday. Rescuers had been working by hand to take away particles after the drilling machine they have been utilizing broke down a day earlier whereas making its approach … Read more

Rescue of 41 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel in India reaches final stretch of digging
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NEW DELHI — The rescue of 41 development staff trapped almost two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India has reached the ultimate stretch of digging. The drill that’s digging into the grime and particles had made it by means of 44 meters (144 ft) out of roughly the 57 wanted, Harpal Singh, a … Read more

Rescuers will dig vertically to reach 41 trapped in India tunnel
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Rescuers blocked from reaching 41 staff trapped by a freeway tunnel collapse are shifting to an try to achieve them vertically ByThe Related Press November 20, 2023, 12:58 AM Individuals watch rescue work on the website of an under-construction highway tunnel that collapsed in mountainous Uttarakhand state, India, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. Forty staff have … Read more

41 workers in India are stuck in a tunnel for an 8th day. Officials consider alternate rescue plans
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LUCKNOW, India — Officers attempting to succeed in 41 staff who’ve been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for eight days had been considering different rescue plans Sunday after snags with a drilling machine brought on them to halt digging. A brand new drilling machine arrived on the accident web site in Uttarakhand … Read more

In India, 40 workers are trapped in a tunnel for a 7th day as rescuers wait for a new drill
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LUCKNOW, India — Forty staff have been trapped in a collapsed highway tunnel in northern India for a seventh day Saturday as rescuers waited for a brand new machine to drill via the rubble so they may crawl to their freedom. On Friday, the drilling was interrupted when some machine bearings turned broken by the … Read more

Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The scent is sickening. Day-after-day, a whole bunch of individuals claw by way of tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their naked arms. They’re on the lookout for the our bodies of their kids. Their mother and father. … Read more

Some of the 40 workers trapped in India tunnel collapse are sick as debris and glitches delay rescue
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LUCKNOW, India — Among the 40 building staff trapped in a collapsed street tunnel for a fourth day had been sick as falling particles and technical glitches delayed the work to free them, officers in northern India stated Wednesday. Huge pipes are set to be drilled by way of excavated rubble to create a passage … Read more

Over 30 workers are trapped after portion of tunnel collapses in India
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Over 30 workers are trapped after portion of tunnel collapses in India

Officers say part of an under-construction street tunnel in a mountainous north Indian state in style with vacationers has collapsed after a landslide, trapping greater than 30 staff ByBISWAJEET BANERJEE Related Press November 12, 2023, 10:15 AM LUCKNOW, India — A part of an under-construction street tunnel in a mountainous north Indian state in style … Read more

Aid trickles in to Nepal villages struck by earthquake as survivors salvage belongings from rubble
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Help trickled in to villages Monday in Nepal’s northwest mountains flattened by a powerful earthquake over the weekend as villagers searched by way of the rubble of their collapsed houses to salvage what was left of their belongings. The magnitude 5.6 temblor struck simply minutes earlier than midnight Friday, killing 157 folks, … Read more

Nepal rushes aid and rescue operations after strong quake shakes its northwest, killing at least 157
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Survivors of a powerful earthquake that shook Nepal ’s northwest in the course of the night time described sudden shaking adopted by homes collapsing and burying total households, because the demise toll rose to 157 on Saturday. Most of these killed have been crushed by particles when their homes — normally made … Read more

2 killed as flooding hits Kenya, sweeping away homes and destroying roads
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Authorities in Kenya say heavy rains and flooding ravaged elements of the nation, sweeping away houses and livestock and destroying roads and electrical transmission traces ByEMMANUEL IGUNZA Related Press November 3, 2023, 2:20 PM Motorists wade via a flooded highway in Mombasa city after a heavy downpour on Friday Nov.3, 2023. A lot of the … Read more

U.N. warns Gaza blockade could force it to sharply cut relief operations
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The U.N. company for Palestinian refugees warned Wednesday that with out speedy deliveries of gasoline it’ll quickly must sharply in the reduction of reduction operations throughout the Gaza Strip, which has been blockaded and hit by devastating Israeli airstrikes since Hamas militants launched an assault on Israel greater than two weeks … Read more