Tag: collapse
Economy 13.08.20 | 12:16

Authorities try to assure the depositors of the failed Eurostandard Bank

An incident was reported yesterday evening in Kavadarci when a man attempted to retrieve the money he has deposited in the Eurostandard Bank, that went under. Police had to be sent to defuse the situation. The bank, owned by oligarch Trifun Kostovski, who made his money in metal trading in the murky...

World 23.09.19 | 22:35

World’s oldest travel company collapses, stranding 600,000 people abroad

Hundreds of thousands of vacationers were left stranded when one of the world’s oldest tour companies, Thomas Cook, abruptly announced Monday, with some of its flights still in the air, that it was going out of business, the New York Times reported. Amid scenes of confusion at airports in European...

Balkans 07.02.19 | 13:57

Two children rescued from rubble of Istanbul apartment building

Two children, a girl aged 5 and a boy aged 2, were saved from the ruins of the eight story building which collapsed in Istanbul on Wednesday. The girl, Havva Tekgoz, was rescued after spending 18 hours under the ruins. A total of 43 people lived in the building, and some are still not accounted for. Two...

World 03.01.19 | 09:35

Death toll jumps to 37 in Russian apartment block collapse

Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a Russian apartment building that partially collapsed this week after an apparent gas explosion, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday, cited by Reuters. The blast in the early hours of December 31 damaged 48 apartments in a 10-storey building...