TEHRAN, May 16, YJC - Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from Singapore's Changi Airport after a small fire erupted in a terminal that was later extinguished, authorities and witnesses said, delaying flights at the global hub.
TEHRAN, May 1, YJC - Parts of a large mosque in the northern Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg were destroyed in a fire late on Sunday night in what police suspect was an arson attack.
A mosque in the US state of Texas has been set on fire and destroyed after being burglarized a week earlier, becoming the second mosque to burn down in the southern state so far this month.
Iranian rescue workers are still trying to find bodies of victims and possible alive individuals in the collapsed Plasco high-rise in Tehran, while the fire has not been put out yet.
Senior officials of France, Britain, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Pakistan extended condolences over shocking collapse of the Plasco 17-story building in Tehran which claimed the lives of 20 fire fighters and left 20 others missing.
Iran confirmed 20 fire fighters were killed in rescue operation at the Plasco building in southern Tehran which got fire and collapsed on Thursday morning.
TOKYO, Nov 12, 2014 (AFP) - A man has burned himself to death in Tokyo in an apparent protest against Japan's controversial move to expand the role of its military, local media said Wednesday, after a similar incident earlier this year.
TEHRAN, YJC. A clothing workshop downtown Tehran burns in flames late Sunday. A seamstress who has found the window the only way out slips off the sill and does not survive.