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Seoul’s government announced plans on Wednesday to ban basement apartments in the South Korean national capital — a style of subterranean home depicted in the Oscar-winning film Parasite — after four people drowned to death in such apartments in recent days during record floods, the BBC reported.

A man and his wife from Schenectady County, New York, were enjoying time with family on July 22 at a Lake Ontario bay when the unthinkable happened.

A seven-year-old boy showed incredible courage recently when a toddler was in extreme danger.

A young man was recognized and presented with an award last week for saving a woman earlier this year who fell into icy waters while trying to save her dog.

A twelve-year-old Kansas boy and his father are being hailed as heroes for their remarkable caught-on-camera rescue of a drowning 4-year-old boy with nonverbal autism.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed an estimated 600 people have been led by smugglers to their deaths in the first three months of this year, a surge in numbers compared to prior years. According to the IOM,

Over 3,000 people are said to have gone missing or died at sea trying to reach Europe over the course of last year, according to the UNHCR.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — Nine migrants drowned in the Rio Grande while attempting to illegally cross from Mexico to Texas in the past week. The drownings come in the midst of a recent, massive spike in traffic in the Del Rio Sector.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — Border Patrol agents assigned to the riverine unit discovered the remains of four migrants and have received reports that two others were swept away by the strong currents of the Rio Grande since Sunday. The six deaths, all in Eagle Pass, include 4 adult migrants, one unidentified 14-year-old child, and an infant.

The Coast Guard recognized a heroic man for jumping into the Houston Ship Channel and rescuing a motorist from a sinking car on New Year’s Eve.

Two Ohio police officers were honored Saturday night for their heroic rescue of a four-year-old boy who was drowning in a recreation pond. 

Three men were arrested, accused of being complicit in the deaths of 25 migrants who were allegedly thrown overboard from a smuggler boat. 

A little boy in Le Claire, Iowa, is out of danger because a neighbor knew exactly what to do the moment she realized it was up to her to save him.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — Border Patrol agents discovered the body of a 4-year-old Nicaraguan migrant child missing since March 5 after her 32-year-old mother dropped the child into the current as she crossed the Rio Grande. Agents assigned to the marine unit discovered the body Thursday, several miles from where the child was dropped. A local funeral home is reportedly arranging to transfer the body to her mother’s new residence in Florida.

As many as ten per cent of the women who attempted to reach Spain illegally by boat in 2021 were killed, double the death rate of male migrants, according to statistics compiled by a Spanish NGO.

DEL RIO, Texas — A 7-year-old Venezuelan child drowned in the Rio Grande after being swept from her mother’s arms Tuesday. The child’s mother attempted to ford the river near the Del Rio International Bridge.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — A migrant drowned in an abandoned industrial waste pit after attempting to flee Texas Army National Guardsmen. The pit is located near the Rio Grande just south of the city. According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the migrant submerged and did not resurface on Friday night.

Authorities in Texas say a man saved a 63-year-old male motorist from drowning after his vehicle drove off of a ferry dock and plunged into a body of water. The incident occurred in the early evening of December 31 at

A California mother pleaded not guilty after she allegedly attempted to drown her four-year-old son in an irrigation canal in Yuba County.

A 17-year-old Eagle Scout rescued two people who were drowning at the beach this past summer and recounted his story in a recent interview.

The UK’s failure to stop illegal boat migration reportedly took another tragic turn, with three migrants believed to have drowned.

A woman was formally recognized in North Richland Hills, Texas, on Monday after she helped save a drowning toddler.

A family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit after ten-year-old Danika Ross died when she was sucked into an irrigation pipe while swimming in a pond at Cave B Estate Winery in Washington.

A woman in New Jersey admitted drowning a puppy over worries her adopted dog required expensive veterinary care, prosecutors announced.

At least 57 people have drowned off the coast of Libya after another boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, as people smugglers continue to operate in the area.

In the first six months of this year, at least 1,146 people have drowned in the Mediterranean as people smugglers resume operations to help migrants illegally cross the sea to Europe.

A 10-year-old Texas boy is being praised for swimming to the bottom of his apartment complex’s pool to save a five-year-old girl recently.

A 10-year-old boy who rescued a family friend in distress at the bottom of a hotel pool is being praised for his quick thinking.

A rescue effort that occurred over the weekend and was caught on camera has placed three Painesville, Ohio, officers in the spotlight.

Authorities have found the body of a 12-year-old boy from Georgia who drowned in a lake while trying to help a younger child in distress in the water.

A New Mexico teen on her vacation to Orlando, Florida, became a hero when she rescued a toddler from drowning.

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has accused the Greek coastguard of handcuffing seven asylum seekers and throwing them into the Aegean Sea.

A 26-year-old Afghan migrant faces up to ten years in prison after being charged with child endangerment following the drowning of his six-year-old son while trying to reach Europe by boat from Turkey. 

A California boy is being hailed as a hero after he summoned his nurse mother who saved his sister from drowning in the family pool.

A video has emerged of African migrant Ousseynou Sy describing his hatred towards Italians after he tried to set a bus full of Italian children on fire to protest migrants drowning in the Mediterranean.

A Texas family has raised tens of thousands of dollars for a man who saved their little girl from drowning this summer.