SOLE SURVIVOR OF AIR DISASTER

 

Thursday 13 May,2010
This child is the only survivor of an air crash which claimed the lives of 103 people.
The ten-year-old Dutch boy was plucked from the remains of the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330, which broke up on landing in Libya yesterday.
The youngster was recovering in hospital last night but amazingly did not have life-threatening injuries.
EU parliament president Jerzy Buzek hailed news of the boy’s survival as “truly a miracle”.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry said diplomats were planning to visit the child as soon as possible to establish his identity.
“One of our colleagues in Tripoli was told by a doctor that he has broken bones and was being operated on,” a spokesman said.
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende reacted with “shock” and Queen Beatrix’s press office said she was “horrified”, as it was revealed 61 Dutch people were among the dead passengers.
The plane arriving from South Africa disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport.
Witnesses spoke of the plane inexplicably breaking up as it came down to land in clear weather.
Investigators sift the debris after air disaster in Libya kills 103 people

A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport, killing 103 people but leaving
a boy as the miracle survivor.
Dutch, Libyans, Africans and Europeans were among the dead.
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TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

SOARING TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN YEMEN

SANA'A, JAN. 1 (BNA) A TOTAL OF 3041 YEMENIS DIED IN ROAD ACCIDENTS LAST YEAR, RECORDING AN INCREASE BY 144 PEOPLE IF COMPARED TO THE 2008 FIGURES.
HOWEVER, 19,828 PEOPLE WERE INJURED AGAINST 19445 DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ATTRIBUTED THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS TO SPEED, DRIVERS' NEGLIGENCE, NONUSE OF SAFETY BELTS, CHEWING QAT AND USE OF MOBILE PHONES WHILE DRIVING. MTQ 01-JAN-2010 21:24 


SOURCE:http://english.bna.bh/

SHIPYARD ACCIDENTS

Over 1,300 workers killed in Chittagong in 12 years
BSS, Chittagong

Thirty workers were killed in accidents in different shipyards in Chittagong in the last 11 months raising the death toll from such accidents in the industry to more than 1,300 in the last 12 years.
Over 10,000 workers were also injured as the rate of accidents in the shipyards, being run without the 'final certificate' of the Explosives Department and ignoring the maritime policy, is increasing alarmingly.
Five workers were killed and 28 others injured in a gas explosion at Diamond Shipbreaking Yard in Madambibir Hat last week. Two days later, six workers suffered injuries in another accident.
"Before conducting gas cutter in scrapped ship, releasing of gas and other flammable things from its oil tanker and gas cylinder is a must. But the ship-breaking firms are not maintaining the system that led to the accidents frequently in the industry," an official of the Explosives Department told BSS Saturday.


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