A four-alarm fire on Bivona Street in the Bronx spread through the top floors of a 17-story building, with residents evacuated after an explosion and at least one death confirmed.
A blaze in a four-storey furniture shop building in Nampally left five people dead while smoke kept rescue crews from moving quickly through the structure.
A fast-moving winter storm killed three people in New York City and one driver in Tennessee while triggering emergency declarations, transit shutdowns and widespread outages.
On the event date, six people are killed, 12 others are injured and dozens are reported missing when a gold mine collapses in abu jubaiha, south kordofan, sudan.
An avalanche wiped out nine members of one family in northwestern Pakistan, while severe winter weather across Afghanistan left 11 people dead and cut off roads in multiple provinces on January 23, 2026.
Two more students died from their injuries after a January 19 crash near Vanderbijlpark, bringing the death toll to 14 children and leading prosecutors to upgrade the driver's case to murder.
A landslide killed two people at a Welcome Bay home while rescuers searched through the night for campers missing after a separate slope collapse at Mount Maunganui.
A sightseeing helicopter carrying a pilot and two Taiwanese passengers vanished in cloudy weather near Mount Aso, prompting a search that was paused overnight.
Event date January 19, 2026: A truck and school bus collision in Gauteng killed 13 children and injured several others, shocking communities around Vanderbijlpark.
Search teams recovered one body and found additional wreckage after an Indonesia Air Transport turboprop vanished on approach to Makassar with 11 people aboard.
Rescue teams ended search operations at the Barangay Binaliw landfill after finding the final missing victim, with officials saying all reported people had now been accounted for.
An explosion at a Baogang United Steel plant in Baotou left four people dead, dozens hospitalized and six people still unaccounted for as police detained those in charge.
Police say another avalanche killed three Czech skiers in Styria, lifting Austria’s Alps death toll to eight as winter rescue teams continue to work across the region.