An emergency response team assembled by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) set out early Sunday from south China's Sanya Port in Hainan Province to the sea area where it is thought the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 might have crashed.
Twenty-two people were trapped in a coal mine following a gas explosion in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region early Friday, local authorities said.
A Panamanian-registered cargo ship carrying 19 people sank in South Korea's southeast Pohang harbor amid a storm at around 21:30 local time on Tuesday, leaving 10 people dead and one missing, according to the Chinese Consulate General in Busan.
A total of 74 people have been confirmed missing after three fishing boats have sunk since Sunday afternoon in a typhoon in South China Sea, maritime authorities said on Monday.
Pakistan army said Wednesday that nearly 1,000 troops have intensified rescue and relief operations in the worst earthquake affected areas in southwestern Balochistan province.
More than 2,000 soldiers and officers as well as two helicopters have been dispatched to the quake-hit areas.
Military and civilian rescue teams are struggling to find survivors in Lushan and neighboring counties of southwest China's Sichuan Province, badly hit by Saturday's strong earthquake.
Continual aftershocks and insufficient relief supplies are hampering the rescue efforts in southwest China's Sichuan, 36 hours after a powerful tremor hit the province.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ordered all possible measures to be taken to rescue victims and minimize deaths and injuries, after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the southwestern Sichuan Province Saturday morning.
Pakistani army said Wednesday that rescue and relief operations in the earthquake-hit areas of southwestern Balochistan province are in progress.
Rescue work at the site of a landslide that buried 83 miners in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region was suspended on Monday for fear of further slides. By Monday afternoon, rescuers had retrieved 36 bodies from the site of the massive landslide, which happened on Friday.
Three crew members and 24 tourists have been stranded aboard a fishing boat at Xisha Islands, South China Sea, due to strong winds and high waves on the sea, local maritime authorities said on Wednesday.
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