At least 25 people have been killed by overwhelming floods in northern Chile with officials saying 125 people are still missing, reports the BBC.

According to reports, Chilean disaster agency officials fear that number of flood victims could rise since over 30,000 people have been affected by the floods, while close to 3,000 are being housed in emergency shelters.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet visited the region of Atacama on Saturday which was hardest hit.

A Malaysian former ambassador to the United States and a high-ranking member of the prime minister's staff is among the six people killed in an helicopter crash on Saturday in Malaysia, the Malaysian state news agency Bernama reported.

According to the Malaysian state news agenc, the helicopter crashed near Kampung Pasir Baru in Semenyih, at 4:55 p.m. Saturday (4:55 a.m. ET).

Meanwhile, the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak ordered an investigation.

A Malaysian former ambassador to the United States and a high-ranking member of the prime minister's staff is among the six people killed in an helicopter crash on Saturday in Malaysia, the Malaysian state news agency Bernama reported.

According to the Malaysian state news agenc, the helicopter crashed near Kampung Pasir Baru in Semenyih, at 4:55 p.m. Saturday (4:55 a.m. ET).

Meanwhile, the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak ordered an investigation.

Readings from the second black box confirmed on Friday that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately caused the plane crash in the French Alps by accelerating the plane’s descent, reports agencies.

Investigators said Friday that the box revealed that Lubitz repeatedly accelerated the airliner to hasten its collision course with the mountain. This came a day after finding the mangled and blackened flight data recorder from the Alps crash site in southeastern France.

After spending 28 years on death row, a U.S man, Anthony Ray Hinton, was set free on Friday after new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence – an analysis of crime-scene bullets – that connected Hinton to the slayings, reports the Guardian.

The U.S citizen, 58 years old, was sentenced to die for two 1985 murders that for decades he insisted he did not commit.