Nocere – Earth Disasters

In Halong Bay, there were 26 tourist on a boat along with their tour guide that sank. 20 of the tourist were foreigners. The boat went down on the north eastern side of Vietnam taking 12 lives with it. 11 were passengers and 12th victim was the tour guide.

It was a tour boat made of wood. They were in the process of checking out the Unesco World Heritage Site located in the province of Quang Ninh when it sank.

Not all drowned, there were 15 people that were saved. 9 of them were foreigners.

No one knows why the boat sank. It is thought that maybe it broke without anyone realizing it.

The boat was a typical type junk that people will go out on and spend the night on.

Halong Bay is a very popular spot that tourist like to visit. It has many small islands and freshwater swamps.

Some of the rescued passengers thought they had seen a plank of the boat come off of it. Then a lot of water and the boat sank.

Crew were battling the water coming onto the boat and alerted the sleeping passengers. The whole thing happened so fast and the boat sank. The passengers and guide that drowned were all in cabins.

It took one minute to sink according to one survivor.

They are investigating the accident.

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In Argentina on Wednesday, during the busy afternoon rush, a train ran into the back of another train killing 4 people.

70 more were injured in the accident when a train leaving the Retiro train station crashed into the rear of the other train.

The accident happened close to the San Miguel train depot which is 12 miles on the western side of the Argentina capital.

14 of the wounded were listed in critical condition.

Rescue workers continue to look amongst the wreckage for the possibility of people being trapped inside the trains.

The reason for the accident hasn’t yet been determined.

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There were 14 people on board the small aircraft that crashed into a hillside on the outskirts of the capital of Honduras. All died as of a result of the crash.

The small twin engine Let L-410 passenger plane had left the city of San Pedro in the northwestern part of Honduras heading to Toncontin international airport in Tegucigalpa. On board were 12 passengers and 2 crew members.

It was close to 8am that the plane started it’s landing process and descending towards the landing strip. That is also when the pilots lost communication with the control tower. Once communication was lost, they advised rescue crews of the situation.

The plane crashed into a hill that was on the southern side of Tegucigalpa. The crash was located about 2,000 feet above sea level. It was close too the town of Santa Ann Francisco Morazan. The weather at the time was cold and it was foggy out.

One of the pilots had survived the crash but later died as being transported to the hospital.

Residents in the area were the first to get to the accident site. They are the ones that found the pilot still alive and someone asking for help some where in the wreckage.

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Heavy rains like the ones the fell in Sri Lanka always end in disaster. 7 people lost their lives and another possible million people are without homes to return to. The rains fell in the North Central and Eastern areas of Sri Lanka and has caused a wide area of destruction.

Most of the now homeless residents have been set up in shelters at welfare centers and help is being provided.

There are also 5 people who were sent out from the navy to help with the relief efforts that are now missing.

5 people have been injured and yet another 2 still missing.

At this time the count is 1000 home have been destroyed in the flood waters.

The areas that were hit the hardest were the areas of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa which are in the North Central province. In Polonnaruwa. In Polonnaruwa the town of Mdeirigirya was completely under water on Saturday. They were being assisted by the army search and rescue squads.

The eastern areas of Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampara were also affected by the flooding.

On Thursday, an alert was raised about a group of people stranded in an area that the water was going to over come shortly. Two boats were sent out to rescue them.

One of the boats had 17 residents of the town on it, as they were approaching the area they were being taken to, a large gush of water hit the boat and sent it against a culvert. The boat was smashed into three parts. There were at least 5 people that died. A sailor, a 6 year old, a 8 year old plus one man and woman who lost their lives. Many others were pulled away by the current but found trees they could cling to till rescued by the second boat.

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There were jobs advertised to apply for in Bareilly, a town located approximately 115 miles on the southwestern side of Lucknow. Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.

There were 461 positions open that 200,000 people turned out to apply for. The jobs were for the Indian paramilitary force.

The amount of people applying for the job out numbered any thing that was expected which resulted in the Indo-Tibetan Border Force to delay the enlisting of people until a later date on Tuesday.

The people wanting the job were rather upset by the postponing of applying for the positions.

People were upset and anger grew out of control. There were 5 homes set on fire along with a gas station while they protested in the street.

Eventually the job seekers got onto trains to return to their homes. There were too many people for the trains to handle. Ones that could not squeeze onto the train made their ways up onto the roofs.

As the trains were traveling along, they came to a bridge that the train passed under, there were 14 that died instantly when they were hit by the bridge and were knocked off onto the ground. 4 others later died in the hospital and 9 others remained in the hospital.

People riding on the outer parts of trains is not an uncommon sight  in India as seen in the picture. This is a picture of another train ride by other individuals to show how trains travel in India.

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On Saturday, at a little past 10:30 in the evening, two trains collided in Germany. One was a passenger train, the other a freight train.

10 people have been pronounced dead, 43 were wounded. 18 of the wounded are in serious condition.

The accident between the HarzElfeExpress which is a passenger train and the freight train was close to 2 miles away from Oschersieben.

Parts of the train continued to burn for close to two hours in the snow.

Rescue personnel and investigators searched carefully through the wrecked trains looking for any survivors or bodies.

There were many passengers that were tossed out of the train after the accident. They are not sure as to what the cause was.

There were still emergency personnel and investigators at the scene of the accident on Sunday morning.

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The bus was traveling through the south eastern part of Pakistan on Sunday when the driver lost control. He had been speeding and lost control of the bus.

As a result, the bus hit an oil tanker and the tanker exploded. Flames engulfed the whole area.

The majority of casualties were passengers. They were inside the bus and unable to escape as it burned.

Fuel oil from the tanker kept feeding the fire to keep it burning hot.

The site of the crash is in the district of Jamshoro in Sindh province.

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A cow caused and accident that took the lives of 15 people.

As the bus traveled through western part of Uganda, there was a cow in the road. The driver of the bus lost control and hit the cow. The bus then collided with a truck head on.

There were 10 people that died at the scene of the accident. The five others passed away as they were being transported. The hospital in Mulago where they were being taken to is 140 miles from the accident site.

An 8 month old baby who had been traveling with it’s mother was admitted to the hospital in serious condition along with 29 other passengers. Others were treated and permitted to leave the  hospital.

The baby’s mother died in the accident.

The bus was going to the capital Kampala. It was carrying 65 people.

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