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  • 19
    Apr
    2013
    2:31pm, EDT

    Aerials show huge blast zone in West, Texas

    Tony Gutierrez / AP

    This Thursday, April 18, 2013 aerial photo shows the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas.

    Tony Gutierrez / AP

    This aerial photo shows the remains of a burned and damaged school following a Wednesday night fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, Thursday, April 18.

    Adrees Latif / Reuters

    Police and rescue workers stand near a building which was left destroyed from a massive explosion at a nearby fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas April 18.

    Adrees Latif / Reuters

    Investigators stand amid the aftermath of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas April 18.

    Tony Gutierrez / AP

    This aerial photo shows burned down and damaged homes on Thursday, April 18 following an explosion Wednesday a near by fertilizer plant in West, Texas,

    Rescuers searched the smoking remnants for survivors of Wednesday night's thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while the community awaited word on the number of dead. Initial reports put the fatalities as high as 15, but later in the day, authorities backed away from any estimate and refused to elaborate. More than 160 people were hurt. Full story.

    Slideshow: Fertilizer plant explosion in Texas

    Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

    A huge blast rocked a small Texas town causing an unknown number of deaths and destroying nearby homes.

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    What a disaster, my heart goes out to all those affected by this. This is just horrible!

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  • 15
    Apr
    2013
    11:29am, EDT

    Divers search for black box after jet crash-lands off Bali's coast

    Sonny Tumbelaka / AFP - Getty Images

    Members of a rescue team watch as divers prepare to retrieve the black box from a partially submerged Lion Air Boeing 737 on April 15, 2013, two days after it crashed while trying to land at Bali's international airport near Denpasar. The pilot and co-pilot of a Lion Air plane that crashed at Bali's airport have passed initial drug tests, an official said on April 15, as investigators probe the causes of the accident that left dozens injured but no fatalities.

    By Tim Hepher, Reuters

    All 108 passengers and crew members survived when the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet, operated by Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air, undershot the main airport runway in Bali, Indonesia and belly-flopped in water on Saturday.

    Officials stress it was too early to say what caused the incident, which is being investigated by Indonesian authorities with the assistance of U.S. crash investigators and Boeing. Continue reading.

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    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Nose dive to a crash landing
    • Helicopter hits crane, crashes onto busy London street
    • Jet rolls off Moscow runway, splits apart

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    I always wondered how those exit row windows worked, now I know!

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  • 8
    Apr
    2013
    1:51pm, EDT

    Driver rescued from dangling tractor-trailer over Virginia river

    Virginia State Police via AP

    A trailer truck driver is rescued from the cab of her truck while it dangles from the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge Tunnel, by Newport News Master Fire Fighter Scott Dye on April, 8, in Newport News, Va.

    Virginia State Police via AP

    The driver of a tractor-trailer is stuck inside the cab of her truck that is dangling from the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge Tunnel on Interstate I-664 on April 8, in Newport News, Va.

    By Jon Sweeney, NBC News

    Newport News and Suffolk firefighters rescued a driver from her tractor-trailer while it dangled from the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge on Interstate 664 in Newport News, Va.

    The vehicle lost control and struck the bridge wall Monday morning, Virginia State Police said. The truck then caught fire and the cab was left hanging over the bridge that connects Suffolk and Newport News.

    State police say the driver, Almira Ribicm, suffered minor injuries and according to the dailypress.com, she has been charged with reckless driving.

     Watch video of the rescue

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    WHY, Reckless Driving? Like the investigation is now complete, and there were NO mechanical problems, and the Four wheelers had no connection? (four wheelers being the Idiot auto owners) The State Police sure are assuming a bunch of unknowns at this time.

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  • 2
    Apr
    2013
    6:36pm, EDT

    Vanderlei Almeida / AFP - Getty Images

    Bus plunges 49 feet off bridge, leaves 7 dead in Rio de Janeiro

    People surround a bus which fell from a bridge with a height of 49 feet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Tuesday. The accident left 7 people dead and 11 injured.

    9 comments

    happened during a rape of a passenger.

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  • 21
    Mar
    2013
    11:22am, EDT

    Helicopters crash near Berlin's Olympic Stadium

    Hannibal Hanschke / AFP - Getty Images

    A policeman stands next to the accident site where two helicopters crashed near the Olympic stadium in Berlin on March 21.

    Hannibal Hanschke / AFP - Getty Images

    Police officers work at the scene where two police helicopters crashed near the Olympic stadium in Berlin.

    Johannes Eisele / AFP - Getty Images

    The wreckage of a police helicopter is seen near the Olympic stadium in Berlin.

    At least one police officer died after two helicopters collided at Berlin's iconic Olympic Stadium during a security exercise, authorities said.  -- Agence France-Presse

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  • 24
    Nov
    2012
    8:17pm, EST

    Driver rescued from truck as it dangles from overpass

    Beaverton Police Department

    A driver crashed into a railing on the Southwest Denny Road overpass in Beaverton, Ore., and was stuck dangling over Highway 217 on Nov. 24.

    Traffic was stopped in both directions as crews worked to get the driver out of the truck. He did not appear to be hurt. The crash happened around 3:40 p.m.

    For more details, read the full story from KGW.com.

    Beaverton Police Department

    Beaverton Police Department

     

    24 comments

    Since when did news agencies start photoshopping images, isn't that unethical? Check out the floating arm in the second photo.

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  • 16
    Oct
    2012
    12:56pm, EDT

    Poisonous cloud forces evacuations in Germany

    Julian Stratenschulte / AFP - Getty Images

    Firefighters in protective clothes on the grounds of Kraft Foods in Bad Fallingbostel, northern Germany, after a chemical accident on Oct. 16.

    Ingo Wagner / EPA

    Firemen try to repel toxic gases with water at a plant of Kraft Foods in Bad Fallingbostel, northern Germany, in the early morning of Oct. 16.

    Julian Stratenschulte / EPA

    An evacuated resident waits in the Heidmarkhalle after a chemical accident at a Kraft Foods plant in Bad Fallingbostel, Germany, Oct. 16.

    The emergency alarm was sounded when a tank of sodium hydroxide solution was by mistake filled with nitric acid, producing a poisonous cloud of nitrous gases considered extremely harmful if they come into contact with skin or are inhaled. At least 1400 people were evacuated from their homes Monday night after the accident at the factory in the town of Bad Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony. 

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  • 31
    May
    2012
    1:52pm, EDT

    Train derails in India, killing at least five

    Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    Officials and locals gather around the fallen compartments of Doon Express, a passenger train which derailed in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh state, India on Thursday. According to news reports at least five people were killed and about fifty others injured after the passenger train which was traveling from Howrah station, near Calcutta city, to Dehradun in the state of Uttarakhand derailed.

    Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    A volunteer extends a helping hand to a trapped passenger, who's hand can be seen, inside a fallen compartment of Doon Express, a passenger train which derailed.

    Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    Officials inspect the wreckage of the Doon Express.

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    1 comment

    So sorry to hear that. I hope everyone is OK. My regards to all the children in Utam Pradash, Utra Preadesh, and Jaipur. So sweet they are. Nice to hear good things are happening for them.

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  • 25
    May
    2012
    7:50pm, EDT

    Lenny Ignelzi / AP

    Investigators study the scene of a three vehicle crash on a rural highway in which four people were killed and three injured on Friday in Poway, Calif. The Chevy Silverado was speeding northbound on State Route 67 between Poway and Ramona in damp, misty conditions when the driver apparently lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic.

    Investigators use crane to study scene of a car accident in California

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  • 9
    May
    2012
    8:27pm, EDT

    Mike Baker / AP

    Firefighters discuss how to remove a man from a car after he crashed it into TVW Studios in Olympia, Wash., on Wednesday. The vehicle crashed into the side of the building Wednesday afternoon and was left hanging over an alley. The driver was alert and talking with emergency responders as they worked to figure out a safe way to remove him.

    Car crashes into building and then hangs over alley in Washington

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    1 comment

    It's a shame they can't leave his dumb ass in there. If you can't see buildings, trees and mountains then you should not have a license.

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  • 29
    Apr
    2012
    4:11pm, EDT

    Louis Lanzano / AP

    Police investigate a destroyed van that plunged over the Bronx River Parkway, April 29, in New York. Authorities say the out-of-control van plunged off a roadway near the Bronx Zoo, killing seven people, including three children.

    Van plunges off New York parkway, 7 killed

    The seven victims were in the van. Three were girls, ages 7, 10, 12. The adults who died were an 84-year-old man and three women, ages 80, 45 and 30.

    It is still unclear what caused the van to veer out of control but investigators believe it bounced off the median, crossing all southbound lanes before flipping over the guardrail. The area below was a non-public area of the 265-acre animal park. There were no animals or people on the ground.

    Read the full story.

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  • 16
    Mar
    2012
    12:32pm, EDT

    Belgium mourns as bodies of bus crash victims are flown home

    Belgian Defense Department via AP

    Soldiers unload coffins of children and teachers who were killed in a deadly bus crash in Switzerland, at the military airport of Melsbroek, Belgium, on March 16. A coach accident in Switzerland on Wednesday left 28 dead, including 22 children traveling home after a skiing holiday.

    BRUSSELS/SION, Switzerland -- Belgian military aircraft brought home the bodies of 22 children and six adults killed in a bus crash in Switzerland, and the country observed a minute's silence during a national day of mourning on Friday.

    White coffins were loaded into two Hercules transport aircraft near the Swiss town of Sion and landed at a military airport near Brussels from where undertakers collected them after a short ceremony. A third plane returned with their belongings.

    In factories, offices and schools, Belgians stood silent. Buses, trams and some trains also stopped for passengers to pay their respects to the victims, most of them 11 and 12 year olds returning from a school skiing trip.

    "The grief is so intense, but this helps," said one man from the town of Lommel - home to 17 of those killed - referring to acts of remembrance across Belgium.

    Read the full story.

    -- Reuters

    Yves Logghe / AP

    A convoy of hearses leave the military airport of Melsbroek, Belgium, on March 16. A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 12-year-old students returning from a joyous ski vacation as well as the six adults who were accompanying them.

    Yorick Jansens / AFP - Getty Images

    Children of primary school 'De Speling' in Lommel form a circle around a heart drawn with chalk on March 16 during a minute of silence at the 't Stekske primary school in Lommel for the victims of the March 13 bus crash near the town of Sierre in southern Switzerland. Twenty-eight people died in the accident, including 22 children from two schools of Lommel and Heverlee, returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday. Belgians observed a minute of silence and church bells tolled across the grieving nation on March 16 as the bodies of the victims were flown home.

     

     

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