Disaster

Three National Bank of Greece ATM machines were targeted by unknown assailants in various parts of Athens early Thursday, authorities said.

The attacks were carried out in the areas of Kypseli, Nea Ionia and Patissia, causing damage but no injuries.

A miner died and two others were injured after a coal pit collapsed due to a flood in the Suluova district of the Black Sea province of Amasya late on June 8.

One person passed away and four others were severely injured during a blast at the military polygon Anevo, as reported by BGNES.

Mayor of the nearby town of Sopot, Veselin Lichev has stated that the one person passed away is not a Bulgarian resident. 

According to preliminary information, a hand grenade has exploded during military training in the region.

Chinese rescuers on June 2 searched for hundreds missing after a passenger ship carrying more than 450 people capsized in the storm-hit Yangtze river, with several survivors reportedly confirmed trapped in the upturned hull.

A gas pipeline in Istanbul’s Alibeyköy district was punctured during construction on a metro station on June 1, leading to the evacuation of neighboring apartments.

The mayor of a Bulgarian city dropped 50 kilos of sugar on the roads to “chase away bad luck”, after many fatal car accidents took place recently.

Four people, amongst which two children, were killed, and six more were injured in car accidents within the town of 25,000.

Traffic accidents in the month of March decreased by 13.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), but the number of the people that died on the streets of the country rose by 18.8 percent.

The Autobahn suffered some delays lately. Yet it wasn’t because of an accident or delays in traffic, but because of a… fighter jet.

According to reports, a Eurofighter Typhoon being transferred by truck between Berlin and Munich caused the whole traffic jam.

The impressive photos show off the peculiar sight and the line of cars that follow.

A fire at a care home in central China left 38 people dead and six injured, officials and reports said May 26.

A foreign diplomat who is familiar with the recovery effort told BIRN on condition of anonymity that at least 100 people who were displaced by massive floods and landslides in May last year are still living in public shelters.

Over 100 more are also dependent on non-residential help, the diplomat estimated.

"This does not, however, mean that this is the final number," he said.