Nocere – Earth Disasters

There were 480 people rescued from the burning home in the early hours on Monday. 9 people didn’t make it out.

A retirement home on the northwest side of Moscow caught fire Monday morning. It was started by a person who lived there trying to kill himself.

A man took gasoline and doused himself with it. Then he set himself on fire. He was 86 years of age and a World War 2 veteran.

The man, Nikolai Dudin, did die from his injuries. There were 8 others who died besides him. The others died of smoke inhalation.

The gas container was later found in the mans room. The fire has now been listed as arson.

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The landslide was most likely started by the heavy rainfall that has traversed through a town that is located in the north part of Turkey. The landslide took  the lives of at least 12 people.

Dozens of dwellings were taken down by the landslide in Gundogdu. It is the tea producing Black Sea state located in Rice. With the removal of the trees in the area, landslides are getting very common and dangerous. The trees are being removed in hopes of planting more crops.

On Thursday, late in the day, the rains began to fall. Many people were just ending their Muslin fast of dawn to dusk. It is the holy month of Ramadan.

Initially it was reported that 11 people had died, but then the body of an older lady was pulled from the debris. There was yet another person missing.

A Private television program, NTV reported that dozens of dwellings had fell to the ground and many cars were buried beneath the mud. There were also many roadways closed. Even the Black Sea highway that runs along the coast was closed.

A survivor, Burak Akat, reported that his family was eating at the time and heard a loud sound.

“We realized that the house was going to collapse. It did before I could say, ‘Run it’s going to collapse!’” Anatolia quoted Akat as saying. “I managed to throw myself out but my mother-in-law and my brother could not escape. They were buried in the landslide.”

There were at least 7 people who were wounded and many more people were rescued from homes where they couldn’t get out.

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Since June of this year, 350 or more people in Nigeria have died from Cholera.

There has been over 6400 people that have been sick and 352 others that have died.

Cholera becomes a threat when there is no good clean source of drinking water. The flooding after the heavy rainfall has help distribute the disease.

At this time, the occurrence of Cholera has been in the north west and northeastern parts of a Nigeria, the entire country is at risk.

There is 2/3rd’s of the Nigerian population that do not have clean drinking water. Even less then that, less then 40% of the population have any type of indoor plumbing for bath room facilities.

cholera affects the intestines. It will cause diarrhea and vomiting. These two together can cause very serious dehydration.

There are around 120,000 people that die every year from Cholera. It can kill with

in hours if no treatment is started.

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There were 21 people on board the Flair airliner as it wrecked in Bandundu which is about 125 miles on the west side of the capital.

It has been reported that the airliner hit a house. No on ground casualties are known of at this time.

The accident happened about 2km from the airport. The plane was to make one stop in Bandundu before it continued on to the capital.

Most of the passengers and the pilots died in the crash. The pilots are thought to have been Belgian nationals. 19 people who had perished in the accident were pulled from the plane. There were two people who initially made it through the crash alive, but one has since died.

The accident is being checked out as to the cause according to transport Minister Laure-Marie Kawanda.

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In the north eastern parts of China, in the province of  Heilongjiang, a passenger plane crashed. There were at least 42 people on board the plane the died.

There were 96 people on board the plane at the time of the crash. As it over shot the runway trying to land at Yichun City’s airport, it exploded into flames. The accident happened at 1336 GMT. 5 of the people on board were crew members.

Of the people that survived the wreckage, 3 of the 49 are listed in serious condition.

The plane departed the provincial capital of Harbin at 2051. It was an Embraer ERJ-190.

Among the people on board the flight was 5 children.

Most of the people who survived did not have serious injuries.

It is possible that the airport had been covered in fog at the time of the accident.

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A message attached to a drill came from the trapped miners. It brings relief to love ones who have been waiting for 17 days to learn the fate of the miners.

The note read that they were in a shelter in the mine. That they had water and ventilation.

Even now as rescuers know the miners are alive, there is talk of it taking possibly months to get them out.

This is the first contact from the miners since the cave in 17 days ago.

“The 33 of us in the shelter are well,” read the message written with red paint on the piece of paper that Pinera held up on television. Pinera has vowed a major overhaul of the mining regulator in the world’s No.1 copper producer.

A television camera was descended into the mine by some of the rescue members. It showed a few of the miners that are trapped. Some looked right into the camera. Many were not bearing shirts due to the heat inside the mine.

According to officials, they look much better then they expected them to.

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Shahdadkot, Pakistan is begining to look like a lake in areas. On Saturday, rising water jeopardised the mud shoulders which if broken down could put the enitre city under water, Shahdadkot is located in the Sindh province in Pakistan.

Pakistan is suffering from the biggest natural disaster it has ever seen. People are desperately trying to get out of the area to escape the second round of monsoon waters as it soars towards the southern areas.

In some areas already you can only see the roofs of houses that are beneath the flood waters. Everyone living in the area has been advised to leave.

People are piling all their belongings that they can fit onto old trucks and buses. They then ride onto of their belongings trying to get out of the area before the floods hit. Lots of them have no definite plan of where they are going. They only want to reach higher ground out of the range of the water.

There aren’t enough vehicles to help everyone get out. Some could be left behind trying to get as far above the water as they can.

In Pakistan, there are many towns that are also under water as is Shahdadkot. The water is predicted to start going down in the next few days. The last of it will recede into the Indus River and then on into the Arabian Sea.

After the waters recede, the dangers do not end. Then they will have the problem of no clean fresh water. People will be walking through polluted water in the streets. Over 200 places where they could get health care have been storm-beaten or ruined. This leaves people with no proper care  and the spreading of disease is inevitable.

There are at approximately 4 million people that are without homes.

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People were attending a contest where contestants would elude a bull while it ran loose in an arena.

This time the bull made it out of the arena and ended up with the crowd of people who were only there to watch the action, not be in the action.

Some of the people tried to hold back the bull. There was one brave soul that tried to hold onto his tail as it ran through the stands.

There were 40 people wounded in the incident. Most of the wounds were only cuts and bruises according to the officials in Tafalla.

There were 9 of the injured spectators that had to be transported to a hospital in the close by town of Pamplona.

A boy, ten years of age was amongst the ones transported to the hospital. He received many bruises when the bull fell upon him. There was also a 24 year old that was stabbed by the bulls horns.

The bull was finally quieted down and later it was put to death.

Bulls do sometimes get out of the arenas, but it was unusual for one to actually make it into to the stands.

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