Disaster

A teenager drove her blue Honda through a stop sign killing two in a horror car crash and then goes on home later to boast about it on Facebook. The 18-year-old posted “im all over the news bad car crash 2 died,” on her Facebook page. The Telegraph reports: Brianna Longoria of Lancaster, California, was driving her blue Honda on Thursday afternoon with two friends as passengers. According to a KTLA report, Longoria was traveling at speed when she failed to stop at a junction and drove into another car carrying two men.

Two people have been confirmed dead and 17 injured when an Amtrak train partially derailed after hitting a mechanical digger left on railway tracks outside Pennsylvania on Sunday morning. abc7 reports: The accident was reported at 7:53 a.m. Sunday near Booth Street on the Palmetto Train 89 in Chester. The train was operating from New York to Savannah. All Amtrak service is suspended between New York City and Philadelphia at this time. Updates available at https://t.co/0oilXAZsFc. — Amtrak (@Amtrak) April 3, 2016 Amtrak suspended all service between Philadelphia and New York City.

At least two people died and 30 suffered injuries when an Amtrak train collided with a backhoe on the tracks at approximately 7:53 am near Booth Street in Chester, causing the lead engine of the train to derail.  Service has been suspended along the Northeast Corridor in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. According to Amtrak, there were 341 passengers and seven crewmembers on board Palmetto train 89 at the time of the incident, which took place in Chester, Delaware County.

Canadian television broadcaster and federal politician Jean Lapierre has been killed in a plane crash just hours before a scheduled meeting with representatives from the Sanders and Trump campaign.  Russia have called Lapierre’s death as a “deliberate terrorist act” – saying his anti-establishment views posed a threat to Western leaders.

North Korea have warned its citizens to brace themselves for a possible famine and extremely severe economic hardship in the comings months.  State-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun published an editorial saying that the “the road to revolution is long and arduous,” warning citizens that they may have to go “on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again,” in reference to the famine in the 1990’s which killed 3 million people.