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Six people, including four children, have died when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a metal roof on a school’s activity center to collapse in northern Thailand BANGKOK -- Six people , including four children, died Monday when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a metal roof on a school ’s activity center to collapse in northern Thailand, officials said. Eighteen other people were hospitalized, they said. Some students had gone inside the activity center at the Wat Nern Por primary school in Phichit province to shelter from the rain, according to Facebook posts from the official disaster prevention department and public relations office in the province, 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of Bangkok. Patcharin Siri, a staff member of the provincial Public Relations Department, said four children, one parent and one member of the school ’s cleaning staff had died. The meteorological department issued a warning for heavy rain in upper Thailand this week. Monday was also the officia...

Three Spanish geologists have died in a tunnel collapse deep inside a potash mine in northeastern Spain SURIA, Spain -- Three Spanish geologists died in a tunnel collapse deep inside a potash mine in northeastern Spain on Thursday, officials said. The accident occurred in the Cabanasses de Súria mine around 8 a.m., at a depth of 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet), when the three victims were inspecting “an interior area,” the mine operator said. It took several hours for rescuers to recover the bodies from the mine around 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Barcelona. The mine is operated by ICL Iberia, the Spanish subsidiary of Tel Aviv-based ICL Group. The Spanish company confirmed that the three men were Spanish nationals, aged 28, 29, and 31, and experienced geologists . ICL said some 240 workers were immediately evacuated after the incident. “The company’s board of directors sincerely laments the accident and sends its deepest regrets and offer of support to the victims’ familie...