Firefighters rescued from temple bathhouse as wildfire engulfs 1,000-year-old temple
Firefighters had been stationed at Goun Temple from the afternoon of March 24 as the wildfire threatened the area. Eleven ...
South Korea struggles to contain wildfires that have killed 28
Multiple wildfires fueled by strong winds and dry weather have been raging across South Korea's southeastern regions since last Friday.
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Pilot Killed As South Korea Firefighting Helicopter Crashes In Mountain
South Korea has raised the crisis alert to its highest level and declared "a full-scale national response" to bring the fires ...
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Workers save Buddha as S. Korea's wildfires raze ancient temple
At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...
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Visitors pray for healthy eyes at mountain temple in Japan
Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...
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Phuket monastic chief orders halt of top of mountain temple construction after deadly landslide
PHUKET (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The Phuket monastic chief on Sunday ordered a temple on top of a mountain in Tambon Karon of Muang district to halt all construction after a landslide killed 13 ...