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• 29 April 2013: Prague explosion injures dozens
• 24 April 2013: Man drowns in Texas lake after falling from boat
• 15 April 2013: Multiple explosions hit Boston Marathon
• 15 April 2013: Two people confirmed dead in Boston Marathon bombing
• 29 March 2013: Outer Hebrides collision kills postman
• 24 March 2013: Car crashes into house in Suffolk, UK, seriously injuring man
• 11 March 2013: Car crash kills six in Warren, Ohio
• 25 February 2013: Three die in Cornwall, UK caravan park of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
• 14 February 2013: Ukraine plane crash landing kills five
• 30 January 2013: January tornadoes, severe weather in southern, midwestern US cause fatalities

Africa Nigeria fireworks fire kills one, injures dozens Zimbabwean footballer Adam Ndlovu dies in car accident aged 42 Explosion partially destroys intelligence building in Rafah, Egypt Egypt bus and train crash kills dozens of children US Marine Corps blame deadly Morocco Osprey plane crash on pilots Asia US Navy ship damages Tubbataha Reef National Park FAA orders review of Boeing 787 Dreamliners following week of incidents Seventeen soldiers die in Turkey helicopter crash Indian flooding displaces thousands Maharashtra, India state transport bus falls in river; at least seventeen dead Central America Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Costa Rican coast, tsunami warnings issued 'Brakes failed': fourteen killed in Guatemala bus crash Richard becomes a hurricane, threatens Belize Tropical storm Richard nears hurricane strength, soaks Honduras Tropical storm Richard forms, drifts towards Honduras Europe Prague explosion injures dozens Outer Hebrides collision kills postman Car crashes into house in Suffolk, UK, seriously injuring man Three die in Cornwall, UK caravan park of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning Ukraine plane crash landing kills five

Middle East Syrian opposition report fuel station bombing kills at least nine Explosion partially destroys intelligence building in Rafah, Egypt Egypt bus and train crash kills dozens of children Iraq police academy suicide bomb attack kills eighteen Wikinews Shorts: January 26, 2012 North America Man drowns in Texas lake after falling from boat Multiple explosions hit Boston Marathon Two people confirmed dead in Boston Marathon bombing Car crash kills six in Warren, Ohio January tornadoes, severe weather in southern, midwestern US cause fatalities Oceania Fires burn across eastern Australia amid summer heatwave Massive earthquake hits Indonesia, no tsunami risk Palau police shoot Chinese fisherman, police plane feared lost Wikinews Shorts: March 26, 2012 Wikinews Shorts: January 26, 2012 South America Wikinews interviews Diego Grez, Chilean earthquake survivor Students from Liceo María Luisa Bombal of Rancagua, Chile detained after taking control of school Nine Peruvians rescued from collapsed mine Wikinews Shorts: March 26, 2012 Fire in Pichilemu, Chile kills family of five

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