A cave rescue, a shark attack, and street violence add to the week's toll

Rescuers in Laos found five of seven villagers alive after a week in a flooded cave in Xaisomboun province, then kept searching for the other two. Four more men were later brought out after 10 days, for five survivors recovered in total, with two people still missing. The rescue ran on its own timeline beside industrial accidents elsewhere.

Three Latvian climbers were killed and another critically injured in a fall on Denali in Alaska. A 35-year-old man was killed in a shark attack off Michaelmas Island in Western Australia while spearfishing with his family. A shark about 4.5 metres long, of an unknown species, was spotted in the area around the same time.

One person was killed and eleven injured in a magnitude 4.6 earthquake in Jhelum District in Pakistan's Punjab. Three people were killed and three injured when an overpass collapsed in Seoul. Six people died in a house fire in Yuryevka in Russia's Omsk Oblast, and six died after entering an under-construction septic tank in Kalahandi District, India.

In Dallas at least three people were killed, four injured, and 11 reported missing in an apartment explosion. Thirteen people were killed and three injured when an overloaded bus hit a truck on the G40 expressway in Nanyang, Henan. Six people were killed and four trapped when a bridge under construction collapsed in a storm in Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh.

A jury was sworn for the sexual-offences trial of former Northern Ireland MP Jeffrey Donaldson, and his wife Eleanor faced a separate trial of the facts after being found unfit to stand trial. Riots later broke out in Belfast and Newtownards after a knife attack. Police used water cannons as anti-migrant rioting continued for a second day.

Twelve people were killed in a mass shooting in Johannesburg. About 20 people were injured at the Ginza Six complex in Tokyo after a man sprayed an unidentified substance near an ATM. A meteor also landed off the Massachusetts coast, causing an explosion and a sonic boom, with remnants presumed to be in Cape Cod Bay.