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[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]]. 95–4,000+ [30] [31] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a microburst. These crashes likely helped to drive the need to ...
April 26 – Spain – At least 10 people were killed in bus crash in Province of Alicante. [173] May 5 – Tanzania – At least 72 people drowned when the bus they were travelling in was swept into a river in Tanga Region. [174] July 15 – India – At least 45 people were killed when a bus plunged into a river in Arunachal Pradesh. [175]
In Sweden, 37,573 people died from the Spanish flu pandemic according to official statistics. [2] Pandemic: Sweden-wide: 37,000: 1834–1874: Between 1834 and 1874, 37,000 people died in Sweden of cholera. [3] Pandemic: Sweden-wide: 23,563: 2020, January 24 – present: The COVID-19 pandemic is reported to have killed 23,563 people in Sweden as ...
The May 3, 1968, crash of Braniff Flight 352 south of Fort Worth was the deadliest airline disaster in Texas history at the time, killing all 85 on board. But the tragedy has largely been forgotten.
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
The white Honda Civic sped down Highway 57, a rural two-lane corridor that reaches the U.S.-Mexico border, after a Texas sheriff's deputy tried pulling over the car and gave chase when it didn't stop.
January 10 – India – At least 20 people were killed when a double-decker bus caught fire after ramming into a truck in Kannauj. [336] March 2 – South Africa – Centane bus crash. 25 people were killed and 62 were injured when a 65-seater bus plunged into a gorge. [337] [338] in Centane, Eastern Cape.