Incidents

A famous Iranian TV host fainted during a live show because of what was declared to be a chest pain caused by a nervous attack.

The 18th week of Iran’s Persian Gulf Pro League was completely overshadowed by the collapse of the ageing high-rise, called Plasco Building, in downtown Tehran last week.

A US-based Iranian architect says people in Iran should call for tighter regulations on building construction and maintenance in the aftermath of the deadly Plasco Building collapse like what the US society did following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911.

Amid ongoing efforts to recover the bodies of at least 25 people entrapped under the rubble of Tehran’s collapsed Plasco Building, firefighters and rescue workers are also trying to find a number of bank safes belonging to a branch of Bank Tejarat located inside the old high-rise shopping centre.

As the operation to find the people stuck in the rubble of a collapsed building in downtown Tehran has entered the fifth consecutive day, rescue teams detected four new bodies under smoldering debris early Monday.

Opportunists are putting a political spin on the recent collapse of Plasco high-rise building in Tehran for personal gain.

Amid firefighters and rescue workers’ ongoing attempts to find the bodies of those entrapped under the rubble of collapsed Plasco Building in central Tehran, the Police arrested a number of crooks who were trying to abuse the chaotic situation.

A number of Iranian artists as well as dozens of citizens gathered in front of Tehran’s City Theatre to pay tribute to the selfless firefighters who lost their lives or suffered injuries in the recent collapse of Plasco Building.

Nearly 3,000 buildings in Tehran are in the same condition as that of the Plasco Shopping Centre that collapsed on Thursday following a blaze, a member of Tehran City Council said.

A red expression in Google Map shows that Plasco shopping centre in downtown Tehran, which collapsed on Thursday after a huge blaze, is now 'permanently closed'.

At least 32 people were killed and 50 injured after nine coaches of a passenger train derailed in eastern India, police have said, in the latest disaster to hit the vast and accident-prone state railways.

The deadly collapse of Iran's oldest high-rise building in downtown Tehran on Thursday morning has sparked emotional reactions from the international community.

Iranian people gathered around fire stations across the country on Friday, January 20, to honour the heroism of the firefighters who lost their lives in the Plasco shopping centre’s collapse in downtorn Tehran.

An Iranian official announced that 16 firefighters and 9 others have gone missing in the deadly collapse of Plasco building in central Tehran, and efforts are underway to find the bodies.

20 people have been and 50 wounded so far after a bomb struck a market in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, Pakistani health and government officials said.

The drone which was shooed away by anti-aircraft forces in Tehran on Monday belonged to an advertising company.

At least seven teenagers have lost their lives when a Hungarian bus crashed on a motorway in northern Italy, Italian media reported on Saturday.

People in eastern Jeddah, a port city in Western Saudi Arabia, heard the sound of several gunshots on Saturday morning, which were reportedly followed by two suicide bombers exploding themselves.

As Iran is observing a national day of mourning on Saturday following the deadly collapse of Plasco building in central Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited the site of the collapsed high-rise in downtown Tehran to inspect the ongoing search and rescue operation there.

The Mayor of Tehran Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says all ordinary citizens and shop owners had been evacuated from the blazing Plasco building in central Tehran before its total collapse. Qalibaf asked people not to pay attention to rumours.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged Interior Minister to immediately pursue the disastrous collapse of Plasco shopping centre in Tehran, which has killed dozens of firefighters so far.

Plasco shopping centre, one of the oldest high-rise buildings built in the 1960s, totally collapsed after hours of fire. Dozens of firefighters and residents are entrapped inside the building.[:ar]

A bus rollover on Kerman-Rafsanjan road in southern Iran left six dead and sixteen wounded.

At least 32 people have reportedly died in the crash of a Turkish cargo plane near the airport in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.

A murder suspect freed on bail killed 6 people including a policeman and the people who had testified against him in a shooting rampage on Wednesday in central Iran, media reported.