Nocere – Earth Disasters

In Castelldefels, a small town that lies on the south side of Barcelona, a group of approximately 30 people were crossing the tracks. They had just departed a train that had stopped in the town. The accident occurred somewhere between 11:30pm and midnight on Wednesday.

As they were crossing, another train came through the area on it’s way to Barcelona. The train hit the group of people killing 12 and injuring possibly more then 14. Most of the people were going to the Fiesta de San Juan. That is the celebration of the shortest night of the year. It was taking place on the beach at Castelidefels.

They were walking across the tracks instead of the over head bridge due to the bridge being closed during remodeling at the train station. There was an underground passage that could be used and was open when the accident occurred.

As the train was passing through town, it was traveling at full speed. When it hit the group of people, it sent parts of bodies everywhere.

An investigation is being done into the accident. It is being said the so far it looks like the people used poor judgment crossing the tracks.

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It has been raining for days. China continues to suffer from flooding in areas that has taken lives and forced many from their homes. Over 3 million people have been forced out of thier homes in China in the past 2 weeks.

At this time in other areas of China that have been hard hit by rains and landslides, the number of people that have died is at least 239 with 109 people still that haven’t been located. This does not include the 107 from Mondays landslide in Dazhai.

As the mud washed down the hillside, it entrapped many homes in the mud trapping people inside. As they are trying to find the missing people, more mud could come down the hillside at any time.

The homes that are buried beneath the mud are in Dazhai which is in the Guizhou province of China.

The number of people who have died in the landslide is not yet know. It is reported that close to half of the hillside had caved in absorbing a large area of mud.

There are rescuers dressed in orange colored clothing searching along the hillside. Looking under concrete slabs or anything eles that someone could be trapped under.

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In Senegal, a crowd of friends got together at the home of a friend to watch the world cup game with him on his TV.

The guest were at the home of a area head of the national electricity company in Uruguay-South Korea.

The World Cup game was taking place in Matam, which is located in the northern parts of Senegal.

As they were on the terrace watching the game, it fell out from under them killing 11 or more people.

On Sunday there was still concern that more people could be under the debris.

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While people have been checked into a drug rehab place for treatment in Gomez Palacio which is located in Durano in the northern parts of Mexico, unknown men entered their center shooting people on Saturday afternoon.

The men went through the center, which houses 50 people who are being treated,  shooting down people in different areas of the rehab center.

There were 9 people killed in that attack.

There have been other attacks of this sort on different rehab centers.In an incident earlier this month, they killed 19 people. There have been many attacks of this sort in recent years.

They are blaming the drug traffickers. They believe that the rehab centers are protecting drug dealers from their rival gang members according to observers.

The police noted that drug cartels like to use the rehab centers as a place to try and get hitmen and smugglers to work for them. They also threaten them with death if they don’t join forces.

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Today, Saturday June 26th, at about 7:15am a fatal collision between a truck and a bus occurred in the eastern part of India.

The bus ran head on into the truck. Possibly more then 23 of the passengers perished in the accident that were on the bus. Another 25 of the passengers did get injured in the accident.

The bus driver, another one of the fatalities, is considered at fault for the accident.

“It’s a case of rash driving,” Neelmani, a state police spokesman said.

It is rather common for fatal accidents to occur in India. In 2008 close to 138,000 people died in accidents on the national highways.

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Brakes is a frozen food distributor in Tamworth located in Staffordshire.

An ammonia leak left 28 people with injuries. One man had very bad burns to his arms. He was in a compressor room at the time. The accident happened at approximately 1150 BST

Besides the man suffering burns, another 27 people suffered injuries of which 7 had to be taken to a hospital. No one was kept at the hospital. All were treated and released.

Close roads around the plant were closed down by police causing quite a serious congestion around the Brakes plant in Tamworth.

At first it was thought there were going to be a great many casualties, but luckily that isn’t the case.

The man who suffered the worse injury was the one in the compressor room. He is a 30 year old male and he had 15% burns that were infected with the ammonia.

The firefighters used water to rinse off his wounds and then he was transported to Queen Elizabeth Hospital located in Birmingham.

Of the ones taken to the hospital, 4 were having difficulty breathing, and 2 had minor injuries. There were more injuries that did not require a trip to the hospital that were taken care of at the scene.

Brakes was evacuated after the leak that happened during a typical maintenance at the plant. After noting the leak, the plant was evacuated and there is no need to be worried about the ammonia leak. All emergency services have been set in motion.

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Monday night, a passenger train was traveling along between the coastal town of Pointe-Noire and the capital Brazzaville, when a portion of it went into a ravine. The train was traveling at a high speed around a curve in the track on a very hazardous section of track.

At this time there are 76 passengers that perished in the accident while another 745 have suffered injuries.

The last deceased person was removed from the wreckage on Tuesday night.

There is not many roads connecting the main areas and trains are becoming a most useful form of travel for Congolese. There are often too many people riding on the trains.

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Downpours of rain swept through two Brazilian states taking with it at least 41 lives. Another 120,000 people have lost their homes.

They are in the process of trying to get food and medical help to these homeless people.

Bridges fell, roads have been cut off leaving no access to many cities. There have been reports that 600 people have not been located yet, but they are thinking most are out of danger.

“We think the number missing is much, much smaller,” said Cpl. Edward Rocha, with the Alagoas Civil Defense.

The rains that began last week released a months worth of rain in just two days time in Alagoas and Pernambuco. There have been some small areas totally destroyed by the flood water.

Near the city of Uniao, it looked like a tsunami had passed through it. One of the areas that was hit the worst.

People are staying in over crowded schools that have no homes to return to.

About 200 or more soldiers have gone to Alagoas to help search for survivors. They will also help with the clean up effort as the water recedes.

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