Powerful blast in Uzbek capital kills one, injures 162
A warehouse near Tashkent's airport sparked a fire and shattered windows in apartment blocks nearby, authorities said.
Thu Sep 28 2023
Fire at Vietnam apartment block kills 30 - state media
It was reported the fire broke out during the night in a nine-storey building, home to about 150 residents.
Wed Sep 13 2023
Finland counted its bomb shelters and found 50,500 of them
The wary Nordic country made the construction of emergency shelters mandatory under apartment blocks and office buildings since 1950s.
Sat Sep 02 2023
Fire kills more than 70 in Johannesburg apartment block
The fire had engulfed a once-abandoned five-storey building where people had been living.
Thu Aug 31 2023
Major earthquake kills 3,700 in Turkey and Syria, weather hits survivors
The magnitude 7.8 quake brought down whole apartment blocks in Turkish cities and piled more devastation on millions of Syrians.
Tue Feb 07 2023
Death toll from strike on Ukraine apartment block rises to 40
Dozens more were missing, making it the deadliest civilian incident of Moscow's three-month campaign of firing missiles.
Tue Jan 17 2023
Nine die, one missing in apartment block collapse in Russia's far east
The collapse appeared to have been caused by a gas explosion.
Sat Nov 19 2022
Sepang apartment water tank bursts, six vehicles damaged
Police said fragments of the water tank also fell on vehicles below the apartment block.
Fri Oct 28 2022
Body of man chained to chair found
A dead Indonesian man with his left leg chained to a chair was found in the parking lot of an apartment block in Jelutong yesterday.
Sat Apr 23 2022
Fire in Hong Kong apartment building kills 7, injures 11
The blaze occurred in Yau Ma Tei, a usually bustling area in Kowloon packed with old apartment blocks, shops and businesses.
Mon Nov 16 2020
MARA property purchase: AGC agrees to charge several individuals - Azam Baki
Mara's investment wing was claimed to have spent millions of ringgit to buy a five-storey apartment block in Melbourne at above market price.
Fri Oct 09 2020
Welcome to the jungle: Plants overrun Chinese apartment blocks
Without any tenants to care for them, the eight towers have been overrun by their own plants and invaded by mosquitoes.
Tue Sep 15 2020
Malaysian police raid apartments linked to ousted PM Najib's family - Report
Reuters saw about 20 police officers enter the marble-floored lobby of the Pavilion Residences apartment block in the Malaysian capital.
Sat May 12 2018
Saudi-led force admits strike in Yemen's capital hit civilians
The early morning attack in the Faj Attan area of Sanaa hit a vacant building but caused an adjacent apartment block to collapse, killing at least 12 people, six of them children, residents have said.
Sun Aug 27 2017
UK to hold inquiry into London tower block fire as death toll rises to 17
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday promised a public inquiry into a fire that gutted a 24-storey apartment block killing at least 17 people.
Thu Jun 15 2017