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Spectators hurt when power plant demolition goes wrong in California
Flying shrapnel from a power plant demolition injured spectators who were gathered to watch the buildings go down on Saturday in Bakersfield, California. According to the Bakersfield Californian, several bystanders were hurt, including a 43-year-old man who could lose both his legs.
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SeaWorld vs. the Whale That Killed Its Trainer.
There have been dozens of attacks on trainers by orcas in marine parks around the world. These are not bad whales; they just come with all the instincts of predators.
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Skydiving instructor dies on tandem jump in Mississippi
A skydiving instructor on a tandem jump in Mississippi died after his parachute failed to open.
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Military helicopter crashes on Okinawa base
A U.S. military helicopter crashed at an American base on the southern island of Okinawa, Japanese and U.S. officials said Monday.
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Two children Strangled to death by escaped python in Canada
The boys, ages 5 and 7, were found dead Monday morning at an apartment in Campbellton, New Brunswick. They had been sleeping over at a friend's apartment above a reptile store, according to a statement from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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Hundreds of tons of radioactive water pouring from Fukushima nuclear plant
Highly radioactive water from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tons a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up.
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Pilots Killed in UPS Cargo Jet Crash Near Birmingham, Ala., Airport.
A UPS cargo jumbo jet crashed and erupted into flames a half-mile from the airport in Birmingham, Ala., this morning. The two pilots on board died in the crash, according to local police.
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INS Sindhurakshak sinks with 18 on board, navy suffers 'dent'.
Eighteen Indian sailors were trapped and some killed after an explosion and a fire on a diesel-powered submarine berthed at the naval dockyard here early on Wednesday.
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Flight recorders from downed UPS cargo jet probed for clues
U.S. government investigators were hoping Friday that cockpit voice and flight data recorders, pulled from the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane that crashed early Wednesday, would help pinpoint the cause of the accident which killed the jet's pilot and co-pilot.
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Idaho wildfire forces evacuation of 1,600 homes
A wind-driven wildfire burned its way through sage and pine trees near the Idaho mountain resort community of Sun Valley as sheriff's deputies expanded evacuation orders to 1,600 homes.
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Death of 5 Navymen due to burns, drowning
The autopsy conducted on five Navymen, whose bodies were extricated from submarine INS Sindhurakshak, has found that they died due to severe burns and drowning, even as divers continued search operations for other personnel who were on board, on Saturday.
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Philippines ferry Thomas Aquinas sinks, many missing.
At least 31 people have died and around 170 are missing after a ferry collided with a cargo ship in the Philippines.
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Medical Lessons Learned From the Boston Bombing
Rapid use of imaging was critical in stemming marathon's death toll, researcher says
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Train kills 35 pilgrims in eastern India
A train ran over a group of Hindu pilgrims crossing railroad tracks in eastern India early Monday, killing at least 35 people. An angry mob beat the driver severely and set fire to coaches in retaliation, officials said.
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33 feared dead in road accident in Malaysia
At least 33 people were feared killed and 16 injured when a bus carrying tourists plunged into a deep ravine near the popular Genting Highlands resort in Malaysia on Wednesday.
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Migrants killed in cargo train crash
A cargo train that Central American migrants regularly use to hitch a ride to the United States border has crashed in southern Mexico. Officials say at least five people have been killed. A number of others are trapped under the wreckage.
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Dozens die in Kenya bus accident
At least 41 people killed after a bus plunged into a valley west of Nairobi, police officials say.
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M7.0 Earthquake Strikes Alaska's Andreanof Islands
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7 (M7.0) struck in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on 30 August in the early hours of the morning local time.
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Marijuana Farm May Have Caused Yosemite Rim Fire
Todd McNeal, fire chief in Twain Harte, a town affected by the Rim Fire that is still burning in California, told a community meeting: “We don’t know the exact cause. … [It is] highly suspect that there might have been some sort of illicit grove, a marijuana-grow-type thing.”
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Head-on car collision kills six people, including two kids, in Pennsylvania
An SUV crossed into incoming traffic and slammed into a sedan in the Pennsylvania city of Kane on Saturday, killing six people, including two children, police said Sunday.
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