Reflecting on human loss: Touching statistics on fatalities in Nepal, Ukraine, Peru and other countries

In 2023, the world was marked by particularly disturbing tragedies, including plane crashes, bus crashes and devastating fires. Agerpres has compiled a retrospective of the most notable disasters: 

JANUARY

15 - At least 67 people lost their lives in Nepal when a Yeti Airlines passenger plane crashed in the city of Pokhara, some 200 kilometers northwest of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.

18 - At least 14 people, including Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrski and his first deputy Yevgeny Yenin, have died after a helicopter crashed near Kiev.

28 - At least 24 people, including Haitians, died after the bus they were travelling in fell off a cliff for an unknown reason in the Piura region north of Lima, Peru.

29 - At least 40 people are dead after the bus they were on fell off a bridge in south-west Pakistan and exploded.

FEBRUARY

14 - 20 people are dead and about 60 others injured in South Africa after a collision between a bus and an armoured van in Limpopo province.

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26 - At least 27 migrants have died after their boat sank near the Italian city of Crotone in the southern region of Calabria.

28. - 57 people died in Greece in a collision between a ferry and a passenger train travelling between Athens and Thessaloniki.

MARCH

3 - At least 31 people are injured when a lorry and a coach collide in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg.

19. - The driver of a bus loaded with passengers lost control of the steering wheel and fell off a bridge near Shibchar in Bangladesh, an accident in which 19 people lost their lives.

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28 - A fire at a migrant centre in northern Mexico on the US border has left at least 38 people dead.

APRIL

18. - A fire at a hospital in Beijing's Fengtai district killed 29 people.

MAY

7 - At least 27 workers have died in a fire at a gold mine in the Peruvian region of Arequipa.

- At least 20 people have died after a boat carrying tourists capsized in the southern state of Kerala.

22 - At least 20 people, mostly children, have died after a fire broke out in a school hostel in central Guyana's Mahdia.

JUNE

2. - At least 275 people died and about 900 others were injured in a railway disaster in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. A Coromandel Express passenger train and a freight train collided near Balasore, about 200 kilometers from Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha.

 21 - At least 31 people were killed and seven others injured in an explosion at a restaurant in the northwestern Chinese city of Yinchuan.

30. - At least 48 people were killed in a road accident at a busy intersection in western Kenya.

JULY

1 - At least 25 people were killed and 8 others injured after a bus caught fire on a highway in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

5. - At least 20 people have died in a bus crash in Mexico, in the town of Magdalena Penasco in Oaxaca state. The bus crashed into a ravine.

6. - At least 24 people, including children, lost their lives after a gas leak in a makeshift settlement near Boksburg, about 40 km east of Johannesburg.

27 - 23 people have lost their lives and six are missing in the Philippines after their small boat capsized on a lake near the capital Manila after being hit by strong winds.

AUGUST

6 - At least 22 people are killed and more than 50 injured in a train crash in Pakistan.

14. - An explosion occurred in the commercial area of San Cristobal in the south of the Dominican Republic, killing 32 people and injuring 59.

31. - At least 74 people, including 12 children, lost their lives in a fire at a building in Johannesburg.

SEPTEMBER    

26 - At least 100 people died and 150 others were injured in an overnight fire during a wedding taking place in a function hall in Hamdaniyah, northern Iraq.

OCTOBER

3 - At least 21 people were killed, including four Romanians, and about 20 others injured in Venice when a bus carrying tourists, including Ukrainians, French and Germans, fell off a bridge and caught fire.

 28 - A chain reaction road accident involving several vehicles on a highway in Egypt has left at least 32 people dead.

NOVEMBER

3 - At least 27 people died after a fire broke out at a rehab center in northern Iran.

15 - At least 37 people died in Indian Kashmir after a bus they were travelling in overturned on a mountain road and fell into a ravine.

22. - At least 23 people have died in Peru after the bus they were on went off the road and plunged 300 metres into a cliff.