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NOAA's finalized damage survey and analysis for the Lahaina wildfire. In early August 2023, a series of wildfires broke out in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui. The wind-driven fires prompted evacuations and caused widespread damage, killing at least 102 people and leaving two persons missing in the town of Lahaina ...
Australians convicted of bank robbery: Brenden Abbott (born 1962), known as the Postcard Bandit [ 1] Darcy Dugan (1920–1991), bank robber and New South Wales' most notorious prison escape artist [ 2] Keith Faure (born 1951), from Victoria, career criminal [ 3] Victor Peirce (1958–2002), from Melbourne, member of the Pettingill family [ 4]
Raymond Allen Davis is a former United States Army soldier, private security firm employee, and contractor with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [ 4] On January 27, 2011, Davis shot two men in the back, killing both, in Lahore, Pakistan. At least one of the men was armed. Immediately after the shooting, a car coming to aid Davis killed a ...
A mobile morgue unit arrived Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify remains, as Maui County released the first names of people killed in the wildfire that all but ...
Clarke family murders. On 19 February 2020, Rowan Baxter perpetrated a quadruple murder–suicide in Camp Hill, Queensland, Australia. Baxter fatally burned his 33-year-old estranged wife Hannah Clarke and their three children, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey, before dying by suicide at the scene. The murders sparked a national debate about domestic ...
Like so many others in Lahaina, who had lost electricity and internet service hours before the flames arrived Tuesday, Baraoidan and his family were completely cut off from 21st century ...
Martin Bryant. The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history. [ 3] The attack led to fundamental changes in Australia's gun ...
600–900 dead. The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Tasmanians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832 that precipitated the near extermination of the indigenous population. The conflict was fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides; some 600 to 900 Aboriginal people and more than 200 ...