Accident News
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Marseille -
A French submarine that went missing in the western Mediterranean in 1968 has been found, officials said Monday, ending a 51-year wait for families of the crew who continue to seek answers to the naval disaster.
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Bejing -
The death toll from a huge explosion that rocked a gas plant in central China has risen to 15, state media said Saturday.
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Ankara -
Seventeen people were killed and 50 wounded after a minibus carrying migrants overturned in eastern Turkey on Thursday, the private news agency DHA reported.
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Washington -
A grieving Canadian man who lost his family in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX in Ethiopia in March told the US Congress Wednesday that his life had "no meaning anymore", calling the aircraft manufacturer's practices "shameful.
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Wellfleet -
At the entrance to Newcomb Hollow Beach, at the tip of the Cape Cod peninsula, the picture of a great white shark reminds swimmers that the US shores of the Atlantic must be shared with the ocean's most feared predator.
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Avenay-val-d'or -
A woman and three children were killed Monday when a train smashed into their car at a level crossing in eastern France.
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Thessalon -
Seven people died and at least 23 were injured as a fierce storm ripped through beachfronts in one of Greece's top tourist areas, terrifying thousands of holidaymakers caught in the open, authorities said Thursday.
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Islamabad -
At least 11 people were killed and nearly 80 injured when two trains collided in central Pakistan early Thursday, officials said.
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Agra -
At least 29 people were killed and 18 others injured when a bus careered off a notorious Indian highway after the driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel, officials said Monday.
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Sanktpeterburg -
Russia buried 14 navy officers amid tight security in Saint Petersburg on Saturday who were killed in a fire on a nuclear-powered submersible in circumstances that have not been fully revealed by the Kremlin.
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Peshawar -
At least four people have been killed and 21 still missing after a boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday, with a rescue operation continuing as hopes for finding survivors fade.
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Tegucigalpa -
At least 27 people died and nine were missing Wednesday when their fishing boat sank off the Caribbean coast of Honduras, the country's military said.
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Moscow -
Two days after a fire on a Russian deep-water submersible killed 14 crew members, Moscow remains tight-lipped about the incident.The Kremlin says the information about the vessel and its assignment is top secret, but this is what we do know.
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Moscow -
The Kremlin on Wednesday refused to reveal the full story of a fire that killed 14 officers on what was reportedly a nuclear-powered mini-submarine, saying the details of the tragedy were a "state secret.
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Moscow -
Fourteen Russian seamen have died in a fire on a deep-water research submersible, Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday, the latest in a string of disasters and accidents to hit the country's navy.
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Port Harcourt -
At least 45 people were killed and more than 100 injured in central Nigeria when a petrol tanker crashed and then exploded as people gathered fuel, emergency services said Tuesday.
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London -
The body of a suspected stowaway who fell to his death from a Kenya Airways plane landed next to a man sunbathing in his garden in south-west London, a neighbour said.
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New Delhi -
Two incidents of dangerous landings by commercial planes carrying more than 200 passengers were being investigated, Indian officials said Monday.
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Srinagar -
At least 35 people were killed Monday when an overcrowded bus plunged into a gorge in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said.
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Washington -
A small twin-engine plane crashed on takeoff Sunday into a hangar at a Texas airport, officials said, killing all 10 aboard.
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Washington -
A small twin-engine passenger plane crashed in Texas in the United States on Sunday, killing 10 people, officials said.
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Genoa -
The two remaining towers of the motorway bridge in the Italian city Genoa that collapsed last year killing 43 people were demolished on Friday to make way for a new structure, authorities said.
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Budapest -
Hungarian police said Friday they had identified the 26th victim of the sinking last month of a Budapest tourist boat carrying South Korean passengers.
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Genoa -
The two remaining towers of the motorway bridge in the Italian city Genoa that collapsed nearly a year ago killing 43 people were demolished on Friday to make way for a new structure, authorities said.
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New Delhi -
Seven climbers killed on India's second highest mountain last month were roped together when an avalanche struck, an official said Thursday.
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Sihanoukville -
When Sam Sok took a $6-a-day job as a construction labourer in Sihanoukville she knew it could be dangerous, but the deaths of 28 workers in a building collapse -- with her nephew among the missing -- has laid bare the risks many like her face to earn ...
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Ciudad Victoria -
Shocking images of a drowned Salvadoran migrant and his two-year-old daughter who died while trying to cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico to the United States have sparked outrage, underscoring the dangers faced by asylum-seekers.
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Sihanoukville -
Seven people, including five Chinese nationals, have been charged with manslaughter or as accomplices to manslaughter in connection with a building collapse in Cambodia that killed 28 people and sparked anger over shoddy construction regulations.
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Mae Sai -
The "Wild Boars" youth football team, whose plight captivated the world a year ago when they were trapped for nearly three weeks in a flooded Thai cave, paid their respects Monday to a diver who died trying to save them.
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Sihanoukville -
Two men were pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed Cambodian building on Monday, more than two days after a construction site accident that left at least 28 dead.
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Accident Image
A construction crane in Kirov, Russia falls, taking a whole row of balconies with it. YouTube
Police siren. fazen via Flickr
Accident during filming of Transformers 3. YouTube screen capture
Screenshot of video showing a tow truck and rig falling off the cliff edge YouTube screenshot
A660 Otley Bypass heading from Burley-in-Wharfedale. David Spencer [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
5 killed in routine safety drill on cruise ship in Canary Islands (MS Thomson Majesty) YouTube
Officials work at the scene of a multi-vehicle wreck on Interstate 75 at Paynes Prairie on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, south of Gainesville, Fla. Courtesy Matt Stamey/Gainesville Sun
60 year-old cyclist pronounced dead at scene of TTC accident.
Two were rescued with only minor injuries from an SUV that fell 60 feet from the Hackensack River bridge, landing upright. North Jersey.com
In this head-on collision, if both vehicles have an event data recorder, it may be possible to tell more accurately what really happened. Damnsoft 09 (CC BY 3.0)
A picture of the injured woman being pulled from what we can only guess was a very painful and embarrassing situation. YouTube
A police officer at the scene of an accident in Toronto
TRAGEDY: First responders take charge of scene in Vallejo, Calif.,, where an out-of-control car killed one pedestrian and injured six others on Friday afternoon. Medic Ambulance/Twitter.com
60 year-old cyclist pronounced dead at scene of TTC accident.
Sign in park in Fukushima City expresses apologies from city for declaring one-hour park-usage time limit due to radiation level on soil and equipment. Shin-Kenji
DRIVERLESS: A Google self-driving car is seen parked in Mountain View. Mark Doliner/Wikimedia Commons
This wreck at Daytona International Speedway sprayed fans with debris, sending many to the hospital. Screen Capture
Accident scene at the Obalende area of Lagos
TRAGEDY: Metro North railway inspectors examine scene of the Feb. 4 accident in which an SUV was struck by a Metro-North commuter train in Valhalla, N.Y., killing six. NTSB/Wikimedia Commons
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