Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Authorities say the accident took place in San Mateo Atenco, an industrial area 5 kilometres from the Toluca airport.

NSW Premier Chris Minns urges community members wanting to help the Jewish community following the Bondi terror attack to donate blood.

Twelve people are confirmed dead and dozens are injured in a terrorist attack on the Chanukah by the Sea celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Look back at our coverage from the day.

After a fast-moving bushfire reached the front door of her home in 2023, Kay Douglas is now better prepared in case it happens again.

Two adjacent four-storey buildings home to eight families collapsed during the night, the country's state news agency says.

Local media reported that a weather advisory for rough seas was in effect when the swimmers were swept out to sea.

CCTV footage shows household items shaking and alarms going off during an earthquake which struck off the coast of the Aomori Prefecture.

Accused of incompetence and apathy in the aftermath of natural disasters, governments across Asia are facing increasing backlash as the impact of global warming intensifies.

A broad heatwave is expected to spread across Australia, with short and sharp bursts of heat throughout the southern states.

More than 1,300 people are dead and 1.2 million displaced following devastating flooding and landslides in South-East Asia.

It started with a cloud of gas in the dead of night, silently submerging the city in a toxic soup. By morning on December 3, 1984, an Indian city awoke to a nightmare.

Towns are inundated in mud and houses are damaged after flooding in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

Thousands of people pay tribute to the victims of Hong Kong's deadliest fire in more than 75 years, as Beijing warns it will crack down on any "anti-China" protest in the wake of the blaze.

The death toll in the Hong Kong blaze rises as authorities say another 100 people remain unaccounted-for.

A 60-year-old woman survives a 12-hour ordeal after falling into a cave in remote Western Australia, prompting a large rescue effort in the Goldfields. 

Emergency services were called to a property in Bradfield following reports a jumping castle had flown into the air with people onboard.

Many of the people who managed to escape the Wang Fuk Court fires in Hong Kong believe the disaster could have been prevented, saying they had flagged safety concerns more than a year ago.

Hong Kong's worst fire in decades exposed long-standing weaknesses in its aging residential blocks. The question haunting the city is whether the disaster could happen again.

Tasmania's education department and a bus company have both appeared in court after a child with a disability was allegedly left unattended on a bus with access to a bottle of engine coolant in a plastic water bottle.

A massive high-rise apartment fire in Hong Kong's Tai Po district has killed at least 55 people and left hundreds more missing, with firefighters continuing to battle the blaze — as it happened.