Nocere – Earth Disasters

24 People perished in a bus accident on Tuesday when the bus they were riding in dove into a ravine. All 24 people  who died in the accident have been identified by the officials in the north western part of Peru.

Two people survived the impact of the accident, but passed away while being transported to the hospital in Trujillo. Of the dead, 4 are children according to Kyra Orcheff, a provincial official.

Another 27 passengers survived the crash and were being transported to area hospitals.

The driver of the bus, Andres Zavalete survived the accident and was sent for treatment to the Clinica Peruano-Americana in Trujillo.

The driver lost control of the bus and it nose dived over 250 feet down.

Even though the limit for the amount of passengers to be on the bus was only 33, they were traveling with over 50 on board.

The area where the wreck occurred is the same area as an accident on May 30th where 23 people died. It happened in Gran Chimu Province a distant area.

Both of the buses involved are owned by the Kurrungo company.

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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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In Henam province, another deadly coal mine accident has taken possibly more then 46 miners lives.

It happened  on Monday at 1:40 am. There was a blast from a cache of explosives that went off in the mine. There are possibly more then 58 miners pinned in the mine.

This is being considered the most deadly mine accident of the year.

26 of the 72 miners in the mine at the time of the accident were rescued at Pingdingshan city.

China has a very poor record when it comes to mine safety. They averaged nearly 7 deaths per day from accidents in the mines last year.

In the US there were only 18 deaths from mine accidents the whole year.

There are two rescue crews busy in the shaft trying to help evacuate trapped miners.

Already this year the deaths from China coal mine accidents out number the deaths last year for the same quater. Last year there were 509 death recorded. This year for the same quater, there are already 592 deaths.

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An blatant gas detonation gutted the five-story large flat erected structure on Wednesday. Seven population deceased and an additional 21 people were wounded, two of them in seriously condition.

Police staff Alain De Paepe said the explore for more bodies had to be disturbed early Thursday because of worries that adjacent constructions would topple on the debris from the century-old erected structure, which is in a poor locality that is household to more learners and immigrants.

Rescue staff delved through most of the after dark before postponing the search. “So now we have nine bodies,” De Paepe said. The erected structure had only 14 recorded residents.

Smoke and tiny blasts hampered exploring Wednesday when there was still expect victims might be vibrant under the rubble. By Thursday early that expect had substantially evaporated and firefighters were bolstering adjacent erected structure for dread they would topple on the rescue workers.

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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — A bus bringing farm employees and their households home has plunged off a cliff in northern Mexico, murder 14 people. A police news says the bus was traveling along a treacherously snaking stretch of highway as shortly as it plummeted off the 130-foot cliff halfway between the frame cities of Tijuana and Mexicali. The employees were returning home to Sinaloa say from farms in Baja California state. Tijuana Red Cross director Fernando Esquer says infants were among those killed. The activate of the crash ago dawn Saturday is beneath investigation.

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Police say a speeding bus has crashed into a canal, killing 16 people and injuring another 56 in southwestern Bangladesh.
Local police chief Awlad Ali Fakir says the accident occurred early Friday in Faridpur district, 64 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of capital Dhaka.
He says rescuers recovered 14 bodies from the wreckage of the bus and that another four people died while being taken to hospital.
Fifty-six injured people are being treated in hospitals, some of them in serious condition, Fakir says.

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A seek was on Thursday evening for nine persons left missing after a Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine helicopter over the Pacific Ocean beside Southern California, agents said.

Rescuers were combing the locality where the collision appeared, aviation agents said.

A navigate described glimpsing a fireball about 7:10 p.m. beside the smash into location, which is about 25 miles east of San Clemente Island. FAA agents said a Coast Guard C-130 plane bearing seven persons collided with a Marine Corps AH-1 Cobra helicopter bearing two people.

U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Josh Nelson verified that the collision appeared and said a large release group from the Navy and Coast Guard were in the area

“We are throwing everything we can at this right now. We are looking for survivors,” Nelson said. “They have glimpsed debris is in the water.”

Weather situation were aiding the seek, he added.
“The winds are serene, the oceans are serene and we are utilising night-vision goggles,” Nelson said. “The seek situation are ideal.”

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Kabul, Afghanistan  — Fourteen Americans past away in a two of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan on Monday, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said. In the deadlier crashes, a helicopter went down in the country’s west.

Total number of Americans slain in chopper smashes was 14. Seven U.S. service constituents and three U.S. citizens were slain in one. Four other U.S. service constituents were slain in another chopper smash into Monday. Two other NATO-led service constituents were injured.

The occurrence is actually being investigate, but it is verified that hostile blaze was not involved,” ISAF said in an previous report release. Separately, ISAF said a junction worldwide security force slain more than a dozen foe combatants while seeking a compound. The location was considered to harbor insurgents joined to narcotics trafficking in western Afghanistan.

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