Tags: disasters-and-accidents

Several killed by flood-induced landslides in Brazil

08:55:56, 25 November 2008, Radio Australia News

Rescue workers are rushing to help residents in flooded towns in southern Brazil after landslides and floods caused by heavy rain killed at least 45 people and forced 20,000 from their homes.

Dutch tourists rescued in central Australia

17:34:46, 18 November 2008, Radio Australia News

Two tourists from the Netherlands have been rescued in Central Australia.

Landslide kills ten in Indonesia

22:40:40, 14 November 2008, Radio Australia News

Officials in Indonesia say 10 people have been killed and seven are missing, feared dead, after a landslide triggered by heavy rain.

Criminal proceedings against sailor over Russian submarine deaths

14:16:43, 14 November 2008, Radio Australia News

Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a sailor in relation to an accident that killed 20 people aboard one of the Pacific fleet's nuclear submarines.