Portal:Current events/2014 August 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters
  • Governor Eduardo Campos, a candidate in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election, dies in a plane crash in Santos, São Paulo, together with six other people on board the aircraft. It also sparks a large fire (Reuters), (AFP via Yahoo! News)
  • The bodies of five missing climbers are found on Mont Blanc in France. (BBC)
  • Three train cars derail and 11 people are injured after a landslide hits a mountain train in the Swiss Alps. (AP via Yahoo News)
  • In the Philippines a southbound MRT Line 3 train heading to Taft Avenue station derailed and overshot to the streets. The train first stopped after leaving Magallanes station due to a technical problem. Later on, the train broke down altogether, so another train was used to push the stalled train. During this process, however, the first train got detached from the rails and overshot towards Taft Avenue, breaking the concrete barriers and falling to the street below. At least 38 people were injured. The accident was blamed on two train drivers and two control personnel for failing to follow the proper coordination procedures and protoco. (Rappler)

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