On Saturday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 struck the Herat province of Afghanistan and caused a death toll of at least 2,000 people. On Wednesday, another power earthquake, also with a magnitude of 6.3, struck the same region. The recent
On Saturday, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, along with strong aftershocks, struck the Herat province of Afghanistan. The disaster, which caused a death toll of at least 2,000 people, has become one of the most fatal quakes to strike Afghanistan in 20 years. Senior
71 years ago (1952) Some 112 people died when the Perth to London sleeper rammed into the back of a local commuter train throwing carriages into the path of the London to Manchester and Liverpool Express travelling at 60mph. An automatic warning
The uncle of a Canadian man who was mauled to death by a grizzly last week alongside his partner in Alberta’s popular Banff National Park has revealed that he received a final message from the couple. Colin Inglis told the Calgary Herald
Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide after four people – including two young children – were found dead inside a family home. The horrifying incident happened on Titus Lane in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey on Wednesday. Police received a 911 call at
A bus carrying dozens of people plummeted 50 feet from an elevated road in Venice, Italy, causing a fiery crash that killed 21 people and injured at least 15, mostly foreign tourists returning to a nearby campsite. Those who died in the
A military court sentenced a Congolese military colonel to death and convicted three soldiers following the deaths of more than 50 people who were protesting the U.N. peacekeeping mission earlier this year. Col. Mike Mikombe, former commander of the Republican Guard in
The death toll from Bangladesh’s worst dengue outbreak on record has topped 1,000 this year, official data showed, with hospitals struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely-populated country. At least 1,017 people have died so
Almost a year has passed since conflict ended in the Tigray region of Ethiopia due to a cease-fire. According to a study conducted by local health authorities and a university, hunger has become the main cause of death in the Tigray region.
In 2019, a river cruise boat collided with a smaller tourist boat in Hungary’s Danube River and caused 27 deaths, mostly South Korean tourists. Yuriy Chaplinsky, the Ukrainian captain of the river cruise boat Viking Sigyn, was found responsible for the collision