VIENNA – A small plane that took off from neighboring Germany crashed in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, killing all four people on board, authorities said.
The propeller plane crashed near Wald im Pinzgau, in Salzburg province, at 12:45 p.m. local time and apparently burst into flames. Police said three men and a woman were killed, and that they were believed to be German, the Austria Press Agency reported.
The plane had taken off for a round-trip flight from an airfield in Oberschleissheim, near Munich.
There was no immediate information on the cause of the crash.
July 5 – Some 27 people, including nine children, have been confirmed dead after flash floods in central Texas, authorities said on Saturday, as rescuers continued a frantic search for survivors including dozens still missing from a girls’ summer camp.
The sheriff’s office in Kerr County, Texas said more than 800 people had been evacuated from the region as flood waters receded in the area around the Guadalupe River, about 85 miles (137 km) northwest of San Antonio.
“We will not stop until every single person is found,” Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference.
At least 23 to 25 people from the Camp Mystic summer camp were missing, most of them reported to be young girls.
The river waters rose 29 feet rapidly near the camp.
The U.S. National Weather Service said that the flash flood emergency has largely ended for Kerr County, the epicenter of the flooding, following thunderstorms that dumped as much as 15 inches of rain – half of the total the region sees in a typical year. A flood watch remained in effect until 7 p.m. for the broader region.
Kerr County sits in the Texas Hill Country, a rural area known for its rugged terrain, historic towns and other tourist attractions.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said up to 500 rescue workers were searching for an unknown number of missing people, including some who had come to the area for an Independence Day celebration by the river.
“We don’t know how many people were in tents on the side, in small trailers by the side, in rented homes by the side, because it was going to be the Fourth of July holiday,” he said on Fox News Live.
Camp Mystic had 700 girls in residence at the time of the flood, according to Patrick. Another girls’ camp, Heart O’ the Hills, said on its website that co-owner Jane Ragsdale had died in the flood but no campers had been present as it was between sessions.
KARACHI, Pakistan – The death toll from a collapsed multistory residential building in southern Pakistan rose to 16 as search operations to find survivors continued for the second day.
Rescuers pulled 10 more bodies from the rubble during an overnight operation, officials said Saturday.
The government-run Civil Hospital said in a statement it had received the 16 bodies, adding several of the injured had been hospitalized.
Rescue workers are using heavy machinery to search for at least eight more survivors believed to be trapped under the debris, according to local media and emergency officials.
GAZA, July 5 – At least 45 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, amid warnings of a complete collapse of public sectors due to fuel shortages.
In violent attacks, Israeli warplanes fired several missiles at dawn on tents housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to local sources and witnesses.
Sources and witnesses said that flames engulfed a large number of tents in the area amid screams and cries of women and children.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, told Xinhua that 17 people, including a doctor and three of his children, were killed in the attack.
Additionally, 15 people were killed, and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting different neighborhoods in Gaza City, north of the Strip, according to Basal.
He added that four people were killed after Israeli aircraft targeted two houses in the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.
Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis reported in a statement that nine people, including three children, were killed by Israeli army fire near a U.S.-backed aid distribution center north of Rafah, the southernmost of the Gaza Strip.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on these incidents.
KIEV/MOSCOW, July 5 – Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces on Saturday carried out a strike on the Borysoglebsk airfield in Russia’s Voronezh Region, said the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The operation is part of Ukraine’s ongoing efforts to degrade Russia’s airstrike capabilities against Ukraine, the general staff said in a statement.
The airfield serves as a home base for Russian Su-34, Su-35S and Su-30SM fighter jets, said the statement. “A depot containing glide bombs, a trainer aircraft and possibly additional aircraft were hit during the strike.”
On the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its air defense downed over 100 Ukrainian drones across multiple Russian regions overnight.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on social media that two drones flying towards Moscow were repelled.
Voronezh Governor Aleksandr Gusev said no casualties were reported following the attack, and a power line broke down in one of the region’s municipalities due to a falling drone wreckage.
CHANGSHA, July 5 – A boat sinking accident on Saturday afternoon left 1 person missing, with another 28 rescued, in central China’s Hunan Province, authorities have said.
A total of 29 people fell off the 40-seat boat into the water, as the boat capsized at around 4:30 p.m. at Dongjiang Lake in the city of Zixing.
As of 6 p.m., 28 had been rescued — with one of them in critical condition receiving treatment.
Preliminary investigations have found that the area saw a sudden gust of wind, at a speed of up to 30 meters per second, when the accident happened.
Search and rescue efforts continue, while further investigations are underway.
First responders scan the banks of the Guadalupe River for individuals swept away by flooding in Ingram, Texas, Friday, July 4, 2025. AP
KERRVILLE, Texas – Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as at least 23 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floods tore through the state’s south-central region overnight.
At least 24 people were dead and many missing after a storm unleashed nearly a foot of rain just before dawn Friday and sent floodwaters gushing out of the Guadalupe River, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha told reporters Friday evening. The flood-prone region known as Hill Country is dotted with century-old summer camps that draw thousands of kids annually from across the Lone Star State.
Families are reunited at a reunification center after flash flooding hit the area, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Ingram, Texas. AP
State officials said 23 to 25 girls from Camp Mystic, a riverside Christian camp in Hunt, Texas, still were unaccounted for. They declined to estimate how many people were missing across the region but said a massive search was underway, with 237 rescued so far.
July 5 – Russian air defence units downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in widely dispersed parts of the country, including two near the country’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg, officials said.
Alexander Drozdenko, Governor of Leningrad region surrounding St. Petersburg, wrote on Telegram that two drones were downed in different districts south of the city.
He said no injuries or damage was reported. Operations were suspended for a time at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport.
The governor of Smolensk region in western Russia said anti-aircraft units had downed three drones without any casualties or damage. The governor of Voronezh region, next to Ukraine said “several” drones had been destroyed.
The Russian Defence Ministry reported a total of 42 drones destroyed over a three-hour period, 37 of them in three regions bordering Ukraine — Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk.
Ukraine has deployed drones increasingly in attacks on distant targets in Russian territory. In one spectacular set of strikes last month, in an operation dubbed “Spider’s Web”, a number of Russian bombers were hit at various air bases.
Russian forces have used increasing numbers of drones to target Ukrainian cities, with a record total of 539 drones and 11 missiles deployed against Kyiv on Thursday night, according to the Ukrainian air force.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his military had successfully deployed drone interceptors to down Russian drones in the overnight attack.
ISLAMABAD, July 4 – A five-storey residential building collapsed in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing seven people and leaving at least 10 injured, police officials said.
The police officials in the area told Xinhua that over 30 people were trapped under the debris after the building collapsed in Lyari area of Karachi, and rescue efforts are underway to recover the remaining individuals.
The officials said that heavy machinery is being used to help in the removal of the rubble of the dilapidated building, which had already been marked unsafe by authorities, adding that the two adjoining buildings have also been evacuated as a precautionary measure.
The eyewitnesses said that the building collapsed following several jolts that residents mistook for an earthquake, adding that it suddenly came crashing down after a couple of hours of intermittent shocks.
Following the incident, authorities cordoned off the area, and all the victims were shifted to a local hospital, where several people are said to be in critical condition.
A high-level committee has been formed to investigate the incident.
TOKYO, July 5 – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck off the Tokara island chain in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima on Saturday, the latest in a series of temblors in the area, the country’s weather agency said.
The quake, which occurred at 6:29 a.m. local time, measured upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 on Akusekijima, part of the Tokara island chain, said the Japan Meteorological Agency.
The weather agency said the temblor originated at a depth of 19 km, but there is no threat of tsunami.
