Category: Disaster

On June 17, a massive forest fire in central Portugal killed 60 people and left several injured. The Portuguese government has declared three days of national mourning in wake of the incident to honor the victims. Jorge Gomes, Portugal’s secretary of state for internal administration claimed that most…

For keen followers of history, the tragic fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower resulting in the death of at least 12 people in London on 14th June, 2017, will remind the devastating‘Great London Fire’ in 1666. At the dawn of 2ndSeptember 1666, fire broke out in the bakery of Thomas Farriner at Pudding Lane in …

A huge fire consumed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in Kensington, West London, resulting in the deaths of at least six and leaving more than twenty in critical condition. It took more than 200 firefighters to tackle the blaze. The residential high-rise was built in 1974 and contains..

A number of landslides triggered by heavy monsoons in Bangladesh have resulted in the deaths of more than 46 people in the country. Many of the victims are from tribal communities in the remote hill district of Rangamati, which sits close to the Indian border, where 24 people were killed when mudslides buried their homes.

Russia and United States have shared an interesting history, both countries have engaged in a Cold War, in the years following the world’s two major World Wars. Vladimir Putin reminds us that we are no longer living in a world of conventional warfare. As trends around the world suggest an increase in the military..

Terror group ISIS claims responsibility for the twin attacks in Iran. On 7th June 2017, the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini the founder of Iranian Republic was attacked. Reports suggest 12 dead while an unaccounted number of injured. ISIS a Sunni Muslim terror group has claimed responsibility..

Twelve people have been arrested after the London terror attack which left seven people dead and 48 injured. The arrests in Barking, east London, followed a raid at a flat belonging to one of the three attackers. A van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at 21:58 BST on Saturday. Three men then got out and…

Following the bomb blast that took place in Manchester, on 22nd May 2017, families of victims have delayed all funeral processes as the investigation is still ‘underway’. One of Manchester’s biggest Muslim funeral providers, Central Mosque said that it would not have anything to do with Salman Abedi’s..

On 24th of May 2017, a suicide bomb attack took place in Jakarta which killed three police officers and injured 10 people in a twin blast near a bus station…

The Manchester blast that took place on the 22nd of May 2017 has killed 22 and injured 59 people, as per reports on the 23rd of May 2017. The blast took place at Manchester Arena shortly after Ariana Grande’s concert ended, around 10:30 pm.