Main Events, Happenings Around Globe In 2022

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Manmade Catastrophes:

Jan 10: Nine children and ten adults were killed in a fire that broke out in a tall residential building in Bronx, New York.
Jan 13: Five people lost their lives while 45 others were injured as a passenger train derailed in West Bengal, east of India.
Feb 11: Antonov An-2R cargo airplane crashed, killing two people in Russia.
Feb 18: Eight people were found dead abroad ferryboat after it erupted in flames, off the Greek island of Corfu.
Feb 21: Military pilot and co-pilot met their deaths in Iranian F5 fighter jet crash, Northwest of Iran.
Feb 23: Helicopter crash killed four people. The helicopter was conducting routine training operations in Kauai Island under contract to the U.S. Navy.
Feb 28: Germany announced the arrival of 1800 Ukrainian refugees.
March 20: Six people killed after a car crashed into a crowd of people gathered to attend a local carnival in Strepy-Bracquegnies, Belgium.
March 20: Five people dead in Bangladesh ferry accident.
March 21: The US Marine Corps announced that four members were killed in a plane crash during participation in Norwegian-led military exercise, Cold Response.

March 21: China announced all 132 passengers' onboard flight 5735 Fatal killed in fatal crash.
April 20: Six people were killed in a traffic accident as some 528 tried to escape a Malaysia immigration detention center, 362 were rearrested.
April 23: More than 100 dead in oil rig blast in Nigeria.
April 25: Turkish training aircraft crashed in Bursa, killing the pilot and the co-pilot.
April 28: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) registered high radiation levels in Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but reassured that the situation remains stable.
May 7: Gas leak in a hotel in Havana, Cuba, caused blast killing 22 people.
May 14: In New Delhi, India, 27 people killed and 12 injured due to fire in mall.
May 22: Two dead and 42 wounded in bus accident carrying college students in Turkiye.
May 27: Seven Indian soldiers dead and 19 injured in road accident.
May 30: Nepal announced all 22 passengers on board Tara aircraft were killed in the crash.
June 3: Five people killed in train crash in Bavaria, Germany.

June 4: Fire in forests in north Pakistan killed four people.

June 4: Nine workers dead and 19 others wounded in blast in north India.

June 5: 22 people dead and six injured due to bus derailment accident in India.

June 5: Fire in container depot in Bangladesh killed 15 and injured 170 others.

June 8: Bus crash in Pakistan killed 22 people.

June 9: The United States announced death of four marines follow airplane crash.

June 27: Many dead and more than 50 injured in train derailment accident in Missouri, the United States.
July 17: Helicopter crash in American New Mexico state, killed four people.
August 2: Pakistan army helicopter on flood relief operation crashed killing six people on board.
August 13: One person killed and 17 others injured in a stage collapse at a music festival near Spain's eastern city of Valencia.
August 16: 20 people were killed and six others received injuries when a passenger bus collided with an oil tanker on the Pakistan's eastern Multan-Sukkur Motorway.
August 16: Six Indian security men were killed and 30 others were injured as their bus fell into a deep gorge in Anantnag district of North Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
August 21: Nine soldiers of Pakistan army lost their lives and four others injured as their vehicle plunged into a ravine in Pakistan.
August 21: Two bus accidents in southeastern Turkiye killed 32 people injured over 50 people.
August 31: Container on working deck of offshore supply ship exploded, killing three crewmembers, at Crotone Port, southern Italy.
Sept 5: One person met his death due to floatplane crash in Washington State, the US.
Sept 11: Three people were killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
Sept 26: At least six soldiers were killed in helicopter crash in Pakistan.
Oct 9: Turkiye announced three people dead due to gas leak explosion in a residential unit in Istanbul.

Oct 15: Gas leak explosion killed 41 people in coalmine, northern Turkiye.
Oct 18: Two dead, three injured following hot air balloon crash in Turkiye's Cappadocia.
Oct 18: Russia announced death of 14, injury of 19 others in Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber crash, falling over a civilian neighborhood in Yeysk city in Krasnodar Krai region.
Oct 21: Military chopper crash killed two people northeast India.
Oct 23: Russian military jet, Sukhoi Su-30, crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk while on test flight, killing the two pilots.
Oct 30: 141 people were killed after a cable bridge collapsed in western Indian state of Gujarat.
Oct 30: 149 people have been killed in a deadly stampede in Seoul at late-night Halloween celebrations.
Nov 5: A helicopter crashed in southern Italy on Saturday, killing all seven people on board.
Nov 5: 15 people were killed in a massive fire that erupted in a complex in central Russia.
Nov 8: one dead, four others injured in place crash in central Russia.
Nov 22: A fire erupting in factory in China killed 36 people.
Dec 16: Russian Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Siberian region of Buryatia, killing three people.
Global Arms Race:

Jan 6: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a national facility for local fighter jets manufacturing.
Jan 6: Japan and Australia signed an agreement for facilitated defense and security cooperation between the two countries.
Jan 14: Turkey's first national intelligence ship TCG Ufuk was put into service. (more)
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