According to NBC News, at least fifty people were killed when a passenger plane crashed in central Russia on Sunday night, officials said. The Boeing 737 from Moscow exploded after a failed attempt to land at the Kazan international airport, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Tartarstan. Cell phone video shows the scene in Kazan, Russia, after a passenger jet crashed, reportedly killing dozens of people on Sunday. Officials said that the plane had attempted to land several times prior to the crash. Read article
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The BBC reports that a man and a woman have died after a light aircraft crashed near the runway at Hawarden Airport in Flintshire. North Wales Police say they were called at 13:07 GMT to the incident involving a twin engine light aircraft. The man was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman was […]
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CNN reports that four people, believed to be U.S. citizens, died Sunday in a small plane crash in the Bahamas, police say. The single-engine plane — apparently on a sightseeing tour — left the international airport in Grand Bahama shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday. Moments later, it crashed in the waters about four miles away, […]
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Al Jazeera reports that a suspected car bomb attack outside a popular hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday evening killed at least six people and left the area covered with blood and burning vehicles, a senior police officer has said. Mogadishu has often been the target of attacks by al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-aligned group […]
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Nation.com.pk reports that a Bolivian plane carrying 18 people crashed on Sunday while trying to land during bad weather in the north of the Andean country, killing eight passengers and injuring the others on board, the director of a local hospital told Reuters. Heavy rain was falling as the small turboprop plane operated by local […]
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The Guardian reports that an overcrowded tourist ferry capsized and sank near a popular Thai seaside town on Sunday, killing six people including two Russians and a Chinese, police said. The rest of the roughly 200 people aboard were rescued. The double-decker ferry carrying Thai and foreign tourists left Lan island on a 30-minute trip […]
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The BBC reports that dozens of people were killed in southern Laos when a plane crashed into the Mekong River. Foreigners from some 10 countries including seven from France were among the dead, as well as Laotian nationals. The plane belonging to state-run Lao Airlines crashed in bad weather just before it was due to […]
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Yahoo News reports that a powerful earthquake killed at least 93 people in the Philippines Tuesday as it generated landslides that buried homes, triggered stampedes of terrified people, and destroyed historic churches. Fifteen of the confirmed fatalities were in Cebu, the country’s second most important city and a gateway to some of its most beautiful […]
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According to herald-dispatch.com, the general manager of a hotel near the Huntington Mall says two people who were struck and killed by a minivan while trying to walk across U.S. 60 on Tuesday night were a retired, married couple from England. The Barboursville Police Department, which is investigating the accident, did not release the names […]
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Yahoo News New Zealand reports that a mob in Madagascar on Thursday killed two Europeans suspected of mutilating and murdering a young boy at the country’s main tourist resort, security forces said. Residents on Nosy Be island went on the rampage after the missing eight-year-old was found dead with his genitals and tongue cut off, […]
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