A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
Tag Archives: 2015
9 January 2015
A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.
24 September 2015
At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
12 May 2015
Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500.
2 April 2015
Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
3 January 2015
Boko Haram militants destroy the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people
6 August 2015
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
22 May 2015
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
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17 February 2015
Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
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9 January 2015
The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
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