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Ambulance

50 injured, several hospitalised in bee attack in Mumbai, India

Virat Singh
Mumbai Mirror
Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:58 UTC
Women attacked by bees
© UnknownNaina Sandesara, 65, and Rupal Shah who were stung by bees at Gaurav Garden Complex, which comprises around 30 buildings at Bandarpakhadi village, Kandivali (West)
Over 50 people were left writhing in agony and many had to be rushed to hospital after a hive of bees attacked people in Gaurav Garden Complex, which comprises around 30 buildings at Bandarpakhadi village, Kandivali (W), on Monday afternoon. What caused the bees to become agitated is unclear.
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Cloud Lightning

Massive storm hits Argentina, 2,000 evacuated

Charles Newbery
TurkishPress.com
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00 UTC
Flooding in Argentina
© AFP
A massive storm hit Argentina over the weekend and Monday, causing flooding and evacuations of more than 2,000 people across the country.

The provinces of Catamarca in the northwest and Neuquen in the southwest took the brunt of the storm, Maria Rodriguez, the national minister of security, said in a statement.

The federal government has deployed national forces, trucks, communications equipment and supplies of food, beverages and medicine to help evacuees and local governments.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills over 60 dairy cows in Chile


yahoo.com
Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:10 UTC
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© AP Photo/Radio San Jose de AlcudiaIn this Monday, April 7, 2014 cell phone image provided by local station, Radio San Jose de Alcudia and downloaded from its Facebook page, a herd of cattle carcasses skirt a tree on a ranch in Rio Bueno, Chile. Ranchers in southern Chile say a series of lightning strikes spawned by storms has killed more than 60 of their dairy cows.
Ranchers in southern Chile say a series of lightning strikes has killed more than 60 of their dairy cows, costing the cattle owners thousands of dollars.

Storms on Sunday spawned the strikes in south-central Chile. Worst hit was a ranch in Los Rios owned by Cecil Fourt, who says 54 of his cows were killed by lightning and another one was blinded. Another rancher, Claudio Toledo, says nine of his cows sheltering under a tree were struck and killed.

The El Austral newspaper reported Tuesday that workers were digging a deep pit to bury the cattle.

Source: AP
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Arrow Down

The New Normal: Sinkholes still plague Palmyra, Pennsylvania

Chriss Holly
ldnews.com
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:13 UTC
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© Earl Brightbill — Lebanon Daily NewsA front end loader is used to fix a sinkhole on South Grant Street south of Cherry Street in Palmyra on Monday. Borough officials believe the new sinkhole may be connected to a hole that opened at a nearby property in the past few weeks ago.
With April showers and the spring thaw, sinkholes are starting to open again around Palmyra.

On Monday, borough crews worked on filling a new sinkhole that was reported during the weekend in an alley along the 300 block of East Cherry Street between South Harrison and South Grant streets. Crews also were patching a sinkhole about two feet in diameter that reopened on South Grant Street on Friday, according to a borough official.

The latest sinkhole was reported Sunday in an alley next to 320 E. Cherry St., borough manager Roger Powl said. He believes it may be connected to a sinkhole that opened on that property at the rear of the house two or three weeks ago.

"It's probably the same hole. It's just getting larger," he said. "It's about the diameter of a basketball."

In October, three large sinkholes opened in the same block of East Cherry Street between the alley and South Grant Street, forcing the evacuation of several families. Residents have been concerned that sinkholes will migrate.
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Work to repair sinkhole starts in Derry Township, Pennsylvania

Myles Snyder
abc27.com
Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:01 UTC
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PennDOT road crews have started work to repair a sinkhole along Route 422 at the east end of Derry Township.

PennDOT crews will first excavate and determine the size of the sinkhole. Depending on the size, the repair work may take most of the day to complete, according to a PennDOT news release.

The repair work is affecting both directions of Route 422, and a traffic signal at the intersection of East Derry Road has been placed on flash. Flaggers are assisting drivers through the work area.

Drivers are advised to seek alternate routes or allow additional time in their travel plans in order to avoid delays.

The work was originally scheduled for Monday, but was postponed because of rain.
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Evansville road shut down after sinkhole size increases, Indiana

Sean Edmondson
14news.com
Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:49 UTC
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A sinkhole has a road closed to traffic in Evansville.

It's at the intersection of Sycamore and MLK. This is the sinkhole we first told you about last week and now it has grown even larger.

The area is closed off to traffic and city crews are now back on scene trying to repair it again.

No word on how long it might take to get that busy intersection back open.

14 News is continuing to follow these developments, and we will have the latest on air, online at 14News.com and on mobile with the 14 News mobile app.
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Crawley, UK: Highway shut for a week due to large sinkhole


Crawley News
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:39 UTC
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CLOSED: The dual carriageway is set to be shut for more than a week
One side of a dual carriageway in Crawley where a "sink hole" has emerged is expected to be closed for more than a week, it has been revealed this morning (Monday).

It appeared yesterday afternoon (Sunday) on the northbound side of the A23 (London Road) between the Fleming Way roundabout, where Astral Towers is based, and the roundabout for Lowfield Heath, close to Gatwick Airport.

A Thames Water spokeswoman described the hole as a "void" as it had been caused by a pressured pipe leaking, rather than a sinkhole, as they occur naturally.

She added: "Thames Water engineers are investigating a leak on a large pressurised sewer pipe beneath the A23 between Crawley and Gatwick Airport.
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Attention

Dead Sperm Whale washes up in Biscay Bay, Newfoundland


vocm.com
Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:33 UTC
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© Sharon Topping

An unusual sight in Biscay Bay off the south coast of Newfoundland is drawing a fair number of curiosity-seekers. A dead sperm whale rolled onto shore late last week. The Town Clerk with the nearby town of Trepassey says she took a trip down to the area after hearing about it on Facebook. She says it's an extraordinary sight but also quite sad.

Recent pictures show the carcass well up onto the beach. Topping says while it's drawing a lot of visitors right now, that won't be the case if the carcass lingers in the area into the summer. She says he's the talk of the town right now, but by summer his welcome will be worn out.
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Nuke

Fukushima nuclear radiation threat to U.S. - It's not just scare stories, it's the truth

Joe Rothstein
US Politics Today
Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:58 UTC
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© Unknown
Like a note in a bottle cast into the sea long ago an email bobbed into my in-box the other day. It called attention to an opinion piece I first published August 20, 2012.

In that article ("Mutant Butterflies and Other Scary Stories"), I featured comments about the effects of Fukushima's nuclear disaster by Helen Caldicott, an Australian pediatrician who has spent most of her career sounding the alarm about nuclear dangers. You can find the original article here:

"Mutant Butterflies" survived somewhere long enough for reader Mike Conley of Los Angeles to find it, read it and be stirred up enough by it to send this email:
"In this article you quote Helen Caldicott: "The ambient levels of radiation in Seattle went up 40,000 times above normal." Think about it: If what she says is true, everyone in Seattle would have come down with radiation sickness. Why don't you do an article that digs into whether or not Caldicott can substantiate her scare stories?"
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Bizarro Earth

Rare footage shows two live oarfish swimming near the shore

Mary Beth Griggs
Smithsonian Mag
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:03 UTC
Oarfish are the world's largest bony fish, and they usually don't come in to the beach. They like depths of around 650 feet, and as far down as 3,000 feet. But in March, a group affiliated with Chicago's Shedd Aquarium encountered two beautiful oarfish swimming near the shore of the Sea of Cortés, in Mexico.


These silvery ribbons of fish can grow to enormous sizes - the two in the video are about 15 feet long, but oarfish can grow to be well over three times that size.

When oarfish end up in such shallow water it usually portends a bad end for the fish, as they don't generally venture into that portion of the ocean unless they are injured or dying. Dissections of two oarfish that washed ashore last fall showed that one was severely infested with parasites. The other may just have been lost.
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