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fromNBC New York
1 week ago

Partial parking garage collapse leaves hundreds of NY drivers without cars

The 15th floor of a parking garage in Westchester County appeared to suddenly collapse on Wednesday, damaging a number of cars parked on the floor below. No injuries were reported in the collapse at the White Plains garage near South Broadway. Primary searches were negative, according to the Yonkers fire department. A photo from the scene shows an upper floor leaning diagonally onto the floor below it, crushing vehicles in the process.
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fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Revealed: The REAL reason why Ernest Shackleton's ship sank

Endurance sank because its hull had multiple structural weaknesses—weak beams, frames, and an extended engine-room section—making it ill-equipped to resist Antarctic ice pressure.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Hopes dim for survivors after Indonesia school building collapses

Heavy machinery is being used cautiously to clear a collapsed school where about 59 teenage students remain unaccounted for.
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fromIrish Independent
3 weeks ago

Indonesia rescuers hunt for 38 feared trapped after school collapse kills three

An unstable fourth-floor construction collapse at an Al Khoziny boarding school in Sidoarjo killed three, injured nearly 100, and left 38 people feared trapped beneath rubble.
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