Sunday, August 12, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
40,000 lightning strikes in china
A 16-HOUR storm unleashed more than 40,000 lightning strikes in China, killing 15 people, injuring more than 100 and bringing air, road and rail traffic to a halt, state media has said.
The storm, in the southwestern city of Chongqing, left five people missing and caused some 10,000 homes to collapse, the Beijing Times said.
It also left the landlocked and mountainous city almost cut off from the outside world as roads flooded, the airport closed, electricity was shut off and gas stations stopped working, the report added.
Railway lines were also blocked.
The storm killed 10 people in Chongqing and five people in neighbouring Sichuan province, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
"The storm was too strong. It overwhelmed most of the city's drainage abilities," it quoted a city official as saying.
Large swathes of China have been hit by severe floods this summer which have killed more than 400 people.
---- KN Staff Reporter.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Strange News
The decomposed corpse of a German man has been found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said today.
The police said in a statement the man was 59 and unemployed at the time of his death. He most likely died of natural causes on November 30, 2000, the date he received a letter from the Welfare Office found in the flat, police said.
Next to the dead man's bed police found cigarettes, an open television guide and Deutschemark coins, which went out of circulation after the euro was introduced in 2002.
The man's flat was in a building with offices and units, many of which are now empty.
"No one missed him. No missing person report was ever filed," the police said.
Friday, May 4, 2007
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