Nocere – Earth Disasters

We are getting use to hearing of suicide bombings and war taking the lives of people, never agreeing with it, but accepting it.

Hearing that approximately 22 people have passed away due to the fact they never got a shot to prevent them from getting measles, is not acceptable.

The people who have perished are mostly young children under the age of 5.

They had not received a shot to prevent the disease. Their parents never got them to the clinic to get the shot.

There have been over 340 possible cases of measles in just Harare this year.  People are not getting their children vaccinated and they could have.

Measles is a disease that can be prevented with the shot.

The fact children and adults are dieing of measles is very unacceptable.

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BAUCHI, Nigeria  – Fighting between Islamic militants and protection compels in northern Nigeria withdrew at least 35 population dead as sect constituents armed with spears and arrows ransacked a neighborhood and set homes ablaze, a police official said Tuesday.

Mohammed Barau, a police spokesman for Bauchi declare, said constituents of the Kata Kalo sect started scuffling among themselves and finding fault each other of causing their head to drop seriously ill. He corrected quicker official assertions that the detain of the sect head prompted the clash.

The scuffling spread into the thoroughfares of a broke neighborhood near the city of Bauchi and military compels attempted to finish the violence, Barau said. Officials said the militants were armed with spears and arrows.

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He was thought to be a member of the march of Shia, but he was in fact a murder. He walked amongst the Shia Muslims in the procession that was honoring the death of Ashura on Monday. Ashura is Muhammad the prophets grandson.

As he marched in the group consisiting of 10′s of thousands of other marchers, he set off his explosive device killing at least 30 of the marchers. He also caused injury to many more.

It is a holy month for the Shia Muslims. The march Monday was the high point of the holy month and security in Pakistan was on high alert.

Even the watchful eye of the security members cannot single out all wrong doers.

At this time there has been no group that has come forward and claimed to have backed the bomber.

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Beijing – Seventeen workers were killed and six miners were trapped underground early Monday after an outburst of coal and gas at a coal mine in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, local authorities said.

The miners were working in a shaft of Malishu Coal Mine in Shuangbai County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture when the accident happened at about 1:50 a.m., said the county government. Rescuers rushed to the mine at 4:00 a.m. They were still searching for the miners. Local work safety authorities were investigating the cause of the outburst.

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A bridge that has been being built since 2007 fell out from under people who where crossing it on Saturday.

At this time, it is thought that possibly 45 people may have perished in the accident. They have recovered 11 of the dead and are searching for others.

The bridge is located in the north area of India is in the industrial center of Kota. The building of the bridge is a joint effort between Gammon India, engineers of South Korean Hyundai, and the public highway of India’s agency.

The accident happened about 250 miles on the south western side of New Delhi. Kota is the center of many manufactures. There are companies dealing with fertilizer, smoothing stone, materials and technology in Kota.

The people who were crossing the Chanbal River by using the bridge descended into the river. Rescue efforts are still underway.

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A Greek cargo company says one of its vessels caught fire in the Caribbean and nine crew members are missing.The Aegean Wind was carrying more than 37,000 tons of iron ore from Brazil to Houston when a blaze broke out in the ship’s mess hall at 9 a.m. Greek time (0700 GMT, 2 a.m. EST) Friday.

The owners says six Filipino and three Greek crew members are missing. The ship was 90 nautical miles (103.5 statute miles) north of Venezuela when the fire started.

The Aegean Wind has a 24-member crew made up of 15 Filipinos and nine Greeks.

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Deep-sea divers sought Saturday for a sunken ferry and 24 missing persons after it collided with another vessel and went down on Christmas Eve.

Search-and-rescue groups, supported by six government boats and three airplane, have combed a 20-nautical-mile (37-kilometer) radius of Manila Bay since Thursday, but the ferry has yet to be established, the head of the Philippine seaboard area guard said.

Three bodies and 46 survivors were retrieved hours after MV Catalyn B, a wooden-hulled ferry with 73 persons on board, collided with the 369-ton angling vessel Anathalia before dawn Thursday beside the mouth of Manila Bay. No added bodies have been discovered since.

Coast guard agents state numerous passengers were sleeping and had no time to get life vests on and numerous of the missing may have been tricked inside.

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Possible more then 40 people on board the bus traveling from Arequipa to Santo Tomas perished in the bus accident.

The bus was in route from Arequipa to Santo Tomas.

It is a long tiring ride and they had been traveling approximately 7 hours when the bus dived down a ravine in the mountain region close to Cuzco.

The accident occurred at about 5:30 in the morning on Thursday, Dec 24th.

Passengers are saying it could be because of the driver being tired, but the roads are not the greatest in that region either.

An additional 20 people were hurt in the accident and transported to hospitals.

The bus is meant to hold 52 people, but as usual, the buses are over loaded with people standing up since there was no room to sit.

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