The tragic fire that swept through a Rhode Island nightclub in 2003 during a Great White concert resulted in 100 fatalities and over 200 injuries. Pyrotechnics ignited flammable acoustic foam, rapidly engulfing... Read more »
The February 2019 incident at Cairo’s main railway terminus resulted in a significant loss of life and widespread destruction when a locomotive collided with a buffer stop, triggering a fuel tank explosion... Read more »
On the evening of 3 March 1943, 173 people, mostly women and children, tragically lost their lives in a crush at the entrance to Bethnal Green tube station, which was being used... Read more »
The catastrophic incident at the Balham Underground station during World War II, on the night of October 14, 1940, resulted from a German bomb penetrating the station’s roof. This led to significant... Read more »
Severe accidents at facilities generating electricity from nuclear fission pose significant threats to human health, the environment, and global economies. Such incidents involve the uncontrolled release of radioactive materials, often resulting from... Read more »