Daily Archives: May 12, 2014

Eighteen dead and three injured after heavy rain causes a wall to collapse at a factory in China and crush a house where workers were sheltering

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A wall collapsed onto a house full of of Chinese workers, killing 18 of them and injuring three more.

The workers, from the recycling plant in Qingdao, eastern China, had taken shelter in the house to escape heavy rain, according to state media.

But the storm was so fierce that it waterlogged the ground around the house, causing a nearby wall, which was holding back tonnes of earth, to collapse on top of it.

According to the Xinhua news agency, 40 people were gathered in the house at the time of the collapse earlier today.

The Qingdao government information office said that authorities were investigating the collapse.

China’s eastern coastal and southern regions have been drenched by heavy rains in recent days.

 

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Nigeria abducted girls: Boko Haram leader claims captives converted to Islam

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A Boko Haram video emerged Monday purportedly showing some of the kidnapped Nigerian girls in Muslim headdresses and the terror group’s leader declaring they have converted to Islam.

 

The video, released by French news agency Agence France-Presse, was shot in a nondescript bush area and showed about 100 girls.

 

In the 27-minute footage, the terror group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, says he is willing to exchange the schoolgirls for Boko Haram prisoners.

 

It shows girls dressed in black and gray hijabs, and reciting the Quran as they make Islamic declarations of faith.

 

It’s the first purported sighting of the girls abducted last month in the northern town of Chibok. A convoy of Islamist militants drove to a school, seized nearly 300 girls and fled into the night.

 

 

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Newly-discovered active volcano could erupt underneath ice in Antarctica and add to effects of global warming, say scientists

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A newly-discovered active volcano could erupt underneath Antarctica, melting the ice from below and compounding the effects of global warming, according to scientists.

Researchers discovered the volcano underneath the ice after setting up devices to measure tectonic activity across Marie Byrd Land in the west of the continent.

Scientists had intended to use the seismograph machines to help in their efforts to weight the ice sheet – only to find that a volcano was in fact forming underneath the ice.

Volcanic activity was discovered around 30 miles from Antarctica’s highest volcano, Mount Sidley, and although an eruption would be unlikely to breach the ice – the accompanying heat could have an effect on the landscape.
Even a sub-glacial eruption would still be able to melt ice, creating huge amounts of water which could flow beneath the ice and towards the sea – hastening the flow of the overlying ice and potentially speed up the rate of ice sheet loss.

 

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