Feb. 17 Daily Brief: South Korean resort collapses, illegal gold miners targeted in Brazil, 100 days since Typhoon Haiyan
At least three students were killed after a South Korean resort building collapsed, the Munduruku tribe of Brazil tracks down illegal gold miners, shelter remains a problem 100 days after Typhoon Haiyan, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire which broke out on piles of reed at a paper factory in Changde, Hunan province February 16, 2014. No casualty was reported, according to local media. Picture taken February 16, 2014. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- A general view shows the scene of a collapsed building at the Mauna Resort in Gyeongju, in South Korea’s south eastern Gyeongsang Province, on February 17, 2014. Media reports said several hundred students were attending a freshman orientation event at the resort. (Yonhap/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Firefighters try to rescue a university student trapped by debris from the collapsed resort in Gyeongju, south of Seoul in this February 17, 2014 photo courtesy of Yonhap. At least three students were killed and some 50 others remained trapped in debris after a resort building collapsed late Monday, according to police officials. (Lee Sang-hyun/Yonhap/Reuters)
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- A woman sits on a bench on a flooded Thames riverside path in Staines, southern England February 17, 2014. Engulfing towns and countryside, floods have triggered the biggest rescue operation in Britain since World War Two. Tens of thousands have been left without power, others evacuated from their homes after the wettest January on record pushed river banks to breaking point. There is now concern that the unrelenting bad weather could be severe enough to dent Britain’s economic recovery. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
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- A resident-survivor of super Typhoon Haiyan builds his house next to destroyed coconut trees at a village in Jaro town, in Leyte province, central Philippines on February 17, 2014, as the Philippines marks 100 days since the devastating typhoon struck. The United Nations warned on February 15, that millions of survivors of the Philippines’ deadliest typhoon were still without adequate shelter 100 days after the disaster, and millions of jobs were also destroyed or impaired after Haiyan tore down or damaged 33 million coconut trees, flooded fields with salt water, and swept away or wrecked 30,000 fishing vessels. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Munduruku Indian warriors navigate the Das Tropas river, a tributary of the Tapajos and Amazon rivers, as they search for illegal gold mines and miners in their territory in western Para state January 17, 2014. The Munduruku tribe has seen their land encroached on by wildcat miners in search of gold, and the tribe’s leaders travelled to the capital Brasilia last year to demand the federal government remove non-indigenous miners from their territory. Rather than wait for a court decision to start the process – which could take years – the Munduruku decided to take matters into their own hands and expel the wildcat miners. Picture taken January 17, 2014. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
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- Munduruku Indian warriors stand guard over an illegal gold miner who was detained by a group of warriors searching out illegal gold mines and miners in their territory near the Caburua river, a tributary of the Tapajos and Amazon rivers in western Para state January 20, 2014. The Munduruku tribe has seen their land encroached on by wildcat miners in search of gold, and the tribe’s leaders travelled to the capital Brasilia last year to demand the federal government remove non-indigenous miners from their territory. Rather than wait for a court decision to start the process – which could take years – the Munduruku decided to take matters into their own hands and expel the wildcat miners. Picture taken January 20, 2014. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
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- Soldiers stands guard at the temporary office of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra during a protest in Bangkok February 17, 2014. Hundreds of unpaid Thai rice farmers swarmed around the office on Monday, threatening to storm the building if the beleaguered premier did not come out and speak to them. The escalation of the protest by farmers, who have not been paid for crops sold to the government under a state rice-buying scheme that helped sweep Yingluck’s Puea Thai Party to power, came as thousands of demonstrators seeking to unseat the prime minister surrounded the government’s headquarters. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
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- Thai farmers battle with soldiers as they protest the government’s repeatedly delayed payments for rice submitted to the pledging scheme at the government’s temporary office in Bangkok on February 17, 2014. Thai opposition demonstrators besieged government offices on February 17, including a compound that has been used as a temporary headquarters by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, in defiance of authorities who have vowed to reclaim key state buildings. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul /AFP/Getty Images)
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