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2001 CAME WITH DISASTERS

USA NORTHERN EUROPE HOLLAND POLAND THE UKRAINE RUSSIA
11 persons of the same The coldest weather ever seen 9 people died in a 28 people froze to Ukrainian ship sank 150 people froze to
family died in a fire. In grasped Denmark, northern cafeteria fire. death. in the Black Sea, 20 death.
a fire in California, at Germany, Norway and people died.
least 2320 hectares of Sweden, many traffic acci- GERMANY CHINA
land was destroyed and dents occurred, public trans- FRANCE 4 people die in a plane BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA 56 people die in sea
thousands of people portation came to a halt. 6 people die in a fire. crash. 16 people die in a bus acci- accidents, 21 die in
left their homes. dent. two plane accidents
SPAIN KAZAKHISTAN and 37 are killed in a
A train collided with a van on CHECHNYA methane explosion.
COLOMBIA the tracks. 11 people died. ITALY The temperature falls
A clash between leftists ETA’s terrorism continues. 4 people died while cele- to 52 degrees below 50 die in bloody skir- AFGHANISTAN
and rightists, and conflicts brating the New Year, zero, 4 people die. mishes.
caused 116 deaths. more than 800 were in- THE MIDDLE EAST THE SEA OF OMAN In 10 days, more than
jured by fireworks. A Pakistani vessel 700 Afghans died of
COSTA RICA ALGERIA Violent skirmishes sank, 35 people die. hypothermia.
23 persons died over 59 die in five assaults, between Israel and
New Year’s. and 8 die in skirmishes. Palestine. KOREA
10 die in a
snow storm

EL SALVADOR ETHIOPIA JAPAN
2000 die in an earth- 7 die due to No day passes
quake. THE CONGO religious clashes. without an
SUDAN 50 dead in a train
EQUADOR 22 persons die in accident. MOZAMBIQUE earthquake.
A tanker run aground off the a minibus acci- IRAN 8000 people homeless af- SRI LANKA
Galapagos Islands released dent. ZAMBIA 18 die in a snow ter violent rain storms.
hundreds of tons of oil into A ship sank claiming 16 storm. INDIA 108 people die in
the sea. It was an environ- HONDURAS lives. clashes.
mental disaster that shocked 24 persons were killed, most KENYA More than 30 thousand die in
an earthquake that measured THE PHILIPPINES
the whole world. of them with firearms. SOUTH AFRICA 30 villagers die in an 7.9 on the Richter Scale, 125 Violent rain storms
BRAZIL 70 die of cholera, 14 die attack by cattle die of hypothermia and 4 die paralyze the economy.
after being struck by thieves.
Hundreds of people are in- PARAGUAY in a helicopter accident.
jured in a fight that broke out In a month and a half 33 peo- lightening. PAKISTAN
in a square in Sao Paolo ple were murdered, or died as VENEZUELA 24 die in a bus acci- BANGLADESH
where 1 million people were the result of traffic accidents, 24 passengers died in an dent, 15 in a train ac- 31 persons die of hypothermia and 250 perish in traf-
celebrating the New Year. electrocution, and drowning. airplane accident. cident. fic accidents.
The twentieth century is most frequently characterized as the century of disasters.
Many deaths were caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and
floods; while many others were caused by civil war, conflicts and by great accidents
on the sea and in the air. And this situation has remained unchanged in the first
years of the twenty-first century. The destruction of cities and the annihilation of its
peoples appears in the hadiths as signs of the Last Day.