Disasters timeline
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Ijegun Pipeline Explosion
Residents, above, view the charred wreckage of their homes and possessions yesterday as rescuers worked to reunite families and register missing... Read more
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Naina Devi Temple Stampede
A stampede at a Hindu festival yesterday left at least 145 people dead, including 40 children, in the mountainous north Indian state of Himachal... Read more
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Spanair Flight 5022 Crash
Spanair Flight JK 5022, from Barajas Airport in Madrid to Gran Canaria Airport in Gran Canaria, Spain, crashed just after take off from runway 36L... Read more
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Matokeo Stadium Riot
Accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft during a match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a U.N.-funded radio... Read more
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Aeroflot Flight 821 Crashes, Killing 88
Aeroflot Flight 821, operated by Aeroflot-Nord in a service agreement with Aeroflot and as its subsidiary, crashed on approach to Perm Airport on... Read more
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Jodhpur Stampede
A human stampede occurred on September 30, 2008, at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, in which 249 people were killed and more... Read more
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Pétionville School Collapse
About 50 schoolchildren and teachers were killed when a shantytown grade school packed with hundreds of students collapsed during classes, a... Read more
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Santika Club Fire
At least 61 people are dead and more than 200 injured after a fire broke out during a new year's party at a Bangkok nightclub. The blaze began... Read more
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Irian Jaya Earthquake of 2009
At least three people were killed when a series of powerful earthquakes struck near the northern coast of Indonesia's largest province Sunday,... Read more
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Sinking of the MV Teratai Prima
The MV Teratai Prima was an Indonesian ferry that sank on January 11, 2009, around 04:00 local time (January 10, 21:00 UTC) in the Makassar Strait... Read more
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Early 2009 Southeastern Australia Heat Wave
The early 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave was a heat wave that commenced in late January and led to record-breaking prolonged high... Read more
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Nakumatt Supermarket Fire
The 2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire occurred when a supermarket in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, caught fire on 28 January 2009. Twenty-nine remains have... Read more
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Kenyan Oil Spill Ignition
At least 111 people were killed when an overturned petrol tanker swarmed by locals trying to scoop up free fuel exploded in central Kenya. The... Read more
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Black Saturday Bushfires
The majority of the fires ignited and spread on a day of some of the worst bushfire-weather conditions ever recorded. Temperatures in the mid to... Read more
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Colgan Air Flight 3407 Crashes, Killing 50
A Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 operating as Flight 3407 departed late from Newark on February 12, 2009, at 9:20 p.m. EST. Shortly after the last... Read more
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Situ Gintung Flood
A dam has burst south-west of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing at least 58 people. Witnesses said a "horrifying" flash flood of water up... Read more
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Air France Flight 447 is lost over Atlantic Ocean
Military aircraft and warships from France and Brazil were combing the equatorial Atlantic in a desperate quest to find the wreckage of an Air... Read more
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Yemenia Flight 626 Crashes
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled commercial flight operated by Yemenia en route from Sana'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros that crashed on 30 June... Read more
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Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 Crashes
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, that crashed near the village of Jannatabad,... Read more
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Typhoon Morakot Hits Taiwan
Typhoon Morakot (International designation: 0908, JTWC designation: 09W, PAGASA name: Kiko) was the deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded... Read more
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Tourist Helicopter Collides with Private Plane over Hudson River, Killing Nine
A deadly mid-air collision between a tourist helicopter and a small plane over New York’s Hudson River has revived fears about the safety of... Read more
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Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydro Accident
The number of people killed in the accident at Russia’s largest hydroelectric power plant increased from 67 to 69. Six persons are still missing,... Read more
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Earthquake and Tsunami hit Samoa
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Pacific near American Samoa, triggering towering tsunami waves that gushed over the island and leaving at... Read more
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Lame Horse Club Fire
Russia was coming to terms last night with its most deadly fire since Soviet times after 109 people died and more than 130 were injured in a blaze... Read more
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Kota Chambal Bridge Collapse
Rescue and search operations continued overnight in Kunhadi area in Kota to recover victims from the debris of the unfinished bridge over Chambal... Read more