Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents

South Australian cave diver Josh Richards provides an update from the Laos rescue mission base, where a team has been working to recover five men trapped in a flooded cave. 

Rescue efforts for two remaining men believed to be trapped in a cave in central Laos have shifted to investigating deep vertical tunnels in the jungle.

Sarah Darbyshire’s phone continues to record as she sinks into quicksand while walking along a stretch of the Glenelg North coast.

Josh Richards says rescuers will have to navigate a ‘lethal passage’ to a pocket of space where two more miners could still be trapped inside a cave in central Laos.

The remaining four men from a group of five were freed from the flooded cave on Saturday evening, in extraordinary and emotional scenes, as search efforts continue for two people thought to still be trapped inside.

Rescue divers in Laos have safely evacuated the first of five local villagers who had been trapped in a cave for more than a week by floodwaters.

The blaze reportedly started when a student set a mattress on fire inside the school's dormitory, with a further 79 students taken to hospital with injuries.

Video shared to social media shows the moment rescuers found villagers trapped in a flooded cave after a landslide in Laos.

Five of the seven people, who entered the cave in central Laos more than a week ago, have been found alive. Rescuers are still searching for two.

Seven people remain trapped after heavy rain triggered a landslide but rescuers say they are close to reaching the group.

The British capital's previous hottest May day was set only one day prior, when the mercury topped 33.5C.

Drones splashed down into the water around Cockle Bay during a Vivid Sydney drone show malfunction.

Seven villagers entered the cave in central Laos five days ago looking for gold when heavy rain caused flash flooding, trapping them inside.

The shopping centre, located in the touristy and upmarket shopping district of Ginza, has been blocked off following the incident.

A burst water pipe flooded a public car park above an underground substation on Little Collins Street in Melbourne's CBD, leaving thousands without power.

Search and rescue operations are underway in the Philippines after a nine-storey building collapsed.  

Evacuation orders are in place for an area covering tens of thousands of people in a suburb of Los Angeles. 

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province sits at 82, state media reports. Two people remain missing.

Three people were killed in a road crash in Sans Souci, in Sydney’s south on Saturday, with the incident captured on nearby CCTV.

An Australian man has died in Peru after falling from an embankment while walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Mr Paton's body was rescued and transported the Aguas Calientes township, known locally as the Machu Picchu pueblo. (Footage supplied: Región Policial Cusco (Regional Police of Cusco).