2009 in Brief..A Review of what made headlines(Disaster category)

Hey Guys...
The calender is about turning over,lets review our losses..I got too little to call it "The whole Year's Major disasters"..........Add more,lets be informed before we all get trapped and deformed..haha no fingers pointed

Enjoy,Happy New Year to all

•   On March 31 at least 200 illegal migrants were killed when a boat traveling from North Africa to Europe sank off the coast of Libya, carrying 257 people due to overcrowding

•   On Apr. 6 an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 stroke central Italy, killing at least 92 people and leaving 40,000 to 50,000 people homeless.

•   Apr. 26 Swine flu outbreak in Mexico killing over 103 people in Mexico, the epicenter of the worldwide swine flu pandemic.

•   On June 30 Yemenia Flight 626, on its way to Comoros, crashed into the Indian Ocean in an attempt to land, leaving only one survivor, a 14-year-old girl.

•   On July 15 a passenger plane operated by Caspian Airlines, flying from Iran to Armenia, crashed just after takeoff, killing all 168 people on board.

•   On Sept. 30 a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the island of Sumatra, leaving more than 700 people dead and thousands trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings in the city of Padang.

What a year....What's left for 2010,

Shalom