18 coal miners dead, 53 missing in Colombia explosion, government says
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The death toll in a coal mine explosion in Colombia increased to 18 Friday with the early morning recovery of two more bodies, a state government spokesman said.
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One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart while attempting to land early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said.
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Torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala have killed at least 37 people, and could claim as many as 100 lives, the country’s emergency services agency said Sunday.
A Peruvian police report leaked Monday says the alleged victim of Joran van der Sloot was found in his hotel room on the floor, half-dressed. The report provides new details about the hours before Stephany Flores’ body was found.
A car bomb rocked the headquarters of the Tamaulipas State Public Safety complex in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, the agency said Thursday. No one was hurt; two police cars were damaged, it said in a news release.
Suspected drug smugglers digging a tunnel across the Mexico-U.S. border hit a sewage line near Arizona, an official with Arizona’s Nogales Utility said Monday night.
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The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the government said.
Rescuers in Ecuador continued to look Monday for two of four miners who were trapped underground after part of a gold mine collapsed in the southern part of the country.
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