A coal mine explosion in eastern China has killed at least 14 people just days after a blast in the country’s south-west left 44 dead.

A TYPHOON-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a police official and a rescued villager said.

Dozens of people were missing and at least one was dead after a packed bus slid off a ferry into a river in south-eastern China today, state media reported.

Six children were killed and 11 injured in a stampede on a school stairwell in eastern China, it was reported today.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to at least 104 today, with another 190 missing, as the most powerful storm to strike the country in five decades weakened into a tropical depression.

AN EARTHQUAKE measuring at least magnitude 5.9 shook a sparsely populated area of southern Iran yesterday, flattening seven villages and killing 10 people, officials said.

Torrential rains and flooding from Typhoon Talim killed at least 10 people and left 15 missing in eastern China, the government said today.

The most powerful typhoon to hit China in seven years killed at least 63 people in the country’s southeast, injured more than 1,800 and knocked down thousands of homes.

Authorities downstream on the Yangtze River braced themselves for high water racing towards them today as the city of Wuhan escaped flooding.

Detonators and fireworks hidden under a load of coal blew up during an inspection of the truck that was carrying them in southern China, killing nine people and injuring 14 others, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Wednesday.

Rescuers are combing through the wreckage of a school in China for clues to the cause of an explosion that killed 41 people, some of them children.