A fifth painting discovered in a turn-of-the-view exercise in Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police said Saturday that the body of a fifth victim was discovered during an exercise that derailed Friday in the southern German Alps.
The man’s body found out after the first attempts to lift the derailed cars failed. Recovery staff had to wait for a heavy crane to be brought to the site near the Garmisch-Partenkirchen beach hotel.
The cause of the derailment under investigation.
Around 140 other people were at the exercise at the time, adding to the students returning from school for the Whitsun break. Police in the southern Bavarian region said another 44 people were injured.
The regional exercise to Munich derailed on Friday afternoon in Burgrain after leaving the beach hotel from which it had broken down. Three of the double-decker cars overturned at least in part and other people were pulled out of the windows to get to safety.
Another 8 people die in chemical plant fire in India
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least eight people have died and more than a dozen were injured after a fire broke out at a chemical plant in northern India, police said Saturday.
The fire broke out after a boiler exploded at the factory in the Hapur region of Uttar Pradesh state, police officer Pravin Kumar said. The injured were hospitalized and three of them were in critical condition, he said.
The intensity of the explosion blew from the roof of the factory, Ajay Mishra, a rescue worker.
The government ordered an investigation.
South Korea reports 8 missile salvo across North
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has verified a salvo of 8 short-range ballistic missiles at sea, South Korea’s military said, extending a provocative series of weapons demonstrations this year that U. S. and South Korean officials say could culminate in a nuclear-control explosion.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired successively over 35 minutes from the Sunan domain near the capital, Pyongyang. He did not specify how far the missiles had traveled, but noted that South Korea’s military had stepped up its vigilance in case the North fired more missiles.
The statement came a day after U. S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan concluded a three-day naval training with South Korea in the Philippine Sea, its first training with an aircraft carrier since November 2017, as countries prepare to improve their defense face training. to develop North Korea’s threats.
The launch of North Korea’s 18th circular of missile tests in 2022 alone, a series that included the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrations in just about five years, while continuing its push toward weapons progression at a time when the UN Security Council is divided over Russia. war against Ukraine.
South Korean and U. S. officials said there were signs that North Korea was also making arrangements at its nuclear control site in the northeastern city of Punggye-ri. The North’s next nuclear control would be the seventh since 2006 and the first since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb to match its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
On Friday, President Joe Biden’s special envoy for North Korea, Sung Kim, said Washington is “preparing for all eventualities” in close coordination with its Asian allies while participating in a trilateral assembly in Seoul with its South Korean and Japanese counterparts on nuclear issues. Confrontation with North Korea.
Nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled since 2019 due to disagreements over the exchange of U. S. -led sanctions against North Korea and measures to disarm the North.
A landslide derails a Chinese train; driver
BEIJING (AP) — The driving force of a high-speed exercise in southern China was killed and eight others injured when two cars derailed early Saturday after suffering a landslide, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The twist of fate occurred mid-morning when the exercise entered a tunnel in the southern province of Guizhou. He was traveling in a normal direction towards the coastal mall of Guangzhou.
The injured were healthy and the other 136 people aboard the exercise were safely evacuated, CCTV said.
The cause of the turn of fate is under investigation. Landslides are not unusual in the region due to a combination of heavy rainfall and infrastructure progression in mountainous areas.
China has the world’s largest high-speed rail network, with 24,855 miles of tracks in the country and trains running at more than 186 miles per hour. Hundreds of millions of passengers are transported each year, although this figure has been reduced particularly due to pandemic-like travel restrictions.
The system’s safety record has been good, with the exception of a 2011 collision between two open-air trains in the southern city of Wenzhou that killed at least 40 other people and sparked a public outcry over a overt effort to conceal the extent of the damage.