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| UpdatedA boat carrying 31 people, including 28 Chinese tourists, is missing off the coast of Borneo, Malaysian maritime authorities say.
Topics: accidents, maritime, disasters-and-accidents, malaysia, china, asia
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| UpdatedNASA marks the 50th anniversary of its Moon program's fatal Apollo launch pad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test.
Topics: space-exploration, astronomy-space, spacecraft, science-and-technology, air-and-space, accidents, united-states
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A man dies after his truck rolls on the Kings Highway south of Braidwood in New South Wales this morning.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, braidwood-2622, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A man who tried to defend his tame deer from two stags is in hospital with a collapsed lung and internal injuries after being gored by one of the stag's antlers on his New South Wales property.
Topics: animals, accidents, otford-2508
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| UpdatedAn Australian woman has been treated for multiple severe injuries after she got into a motorcycle accident while holidaying in Thailand, but her family says the hospital will not let her leave until the mounting medical bill is paid.
Topics: travel-health-and-safety, travel-and-tourism, accidents, thailand, valla-beach-2448, nsw
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| UpdatedA man and woman are killed when a light plane nosedives into the Swan River in Perth during Australia Day celebrations, prompting the cancellation of Perth's Skyworks show which was expected to attract 300,000 people.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, perth-6000
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| UpdatedVision emerges of a double-decker passenger train violently smashing into the back of a semi-trailer in Utah, narrowly missing the cab where two men were seated.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, united-states
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| UpdatedA large sinkhole opened up in a Philadelphia neighbourhood in the United States, partially swallowing a ute and forcing evacuation.
Topics: accidents, accidents---other, united-states
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| UpdatedA police officer critically injured by an out-of-control truck on Sydney's northern beaches in 2014 is still angry and upset about the crash, a sentencing hearing is told.
Topics: accidents, courts-and-trials, dee-why-2099, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA minibus owned by an aged-care organisation collides with a truck and overturns on the M1 near Dapto, in New South Wales, killing one woman and seriously injuring several others.
Topics: accidents, road, aged-care, yallah-2530
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| UpdatedAustralia's film and television union says it will take a fresh look at safety for the entire industry after a man was shot dead during the filming of a music video for Australian hip hop group Bliss n Eso in Brisbane's CBD.
Topics: occupational-health-and-safety, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, music, arts-and-entertainment, brisbane-4000, australia
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| UpdatedThe head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight is likely north of the area where the search is now suspended, but the Australian Transport Minister says no one knows for sure.
Topics: air-transport, accidents, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA truck driver had "considerable difficulty" braking about 5 kilometres before failing to stop at red lights and killing an off-duty policewoman on a motorcycle in Melbourne's east, a court hears.
Topics: accidents, crime, courts-and-trials, wantirna-3152
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| UpdatedPolice are treating the death of a man who tried to evade police by swimming more than 200 metres out to sea on South Australia's West Coast as a death in custody.
Topics: accidents, police, law-crime-and-justice, ceduna-5690
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| UpdatedA truck driver loses his trailer and about 17,000 kilograms of marbles in a massive spill on a highway in Indianapolis.
Topics: accidents, united-states
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| UpdatedA survivor of the air crash two months ago that killed 19 members of Brazil's Chapecoense football club lifted the Copa Sudamericana trophy in honour of his dead teammates.
Topics: soccer, sport, air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, brazil
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| UpdatedSixteen people, mostly teenagers, die and many are injured when a bus crashes while returning to Hungary from a ski trip in northern Italy, police say.
Topics: accidents, community-and-society, italy
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Topics: accidents, death, tathra-2550, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA man dies after being swept off rocks with four other fishermen at Tathra on the far south coast of New South Wales.
Topics: accidents, tathra-2550
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Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, human-interest, tas
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| UpdatedMalaysia says it will pay a reward to any private company that finds the fuselage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, days after a three-year hunt was suspended.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, air-and-space, malaysia, australia, china, asia
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Footage provided to the ABC shows pedestrians running into shops as a man drives along the footpath in Melbourne.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedFootage shows Victorian Police arresting the man believed to be responsible for the deaths of three people after he drove through a busy pedestrian mall.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, police, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he is proud of the state's emergency services' response after a man drove through a packed pedestrian mall in Melbourne, killing three and injuring 20.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedFootage provided to the ABC appears to show a man driving erratically through traffic in a busy Melbourne intersection, before he later drove through pedestrians in busy Bourke Street Mall, killing three.
Topics: accidents, road, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000