Disaster

A small child narrowly escaped death at a busy Chinese intersection after he was thrown out of the back of the moving van that was being driven by his grandad. The two year old was saved by a passenger of another vehicle whose driver filmed the event on his dash-cam. Russia Today reports: The incident near Wujiang, Jiangsu province, China happened when a white van stopped at a traffic light and its trunk door suddenly opened. The vehicle moved again, and out of nowhere a two-year-old kid tumbled out of the vehicle onto the road.

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Three former executives from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have been formally charged with negligence over the 2011 disaster at the company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

In accordance with a ruling from a citizen’s panel last year — and despite two previous refusals by Tokyo prosecutors to press charges — the three will be the first to go to court over the catastrophic meltdown, which followed a massive tsunami.

London is conducting a series of ‘major incident’ drills this week – the largest of its kind ever conducted in Europe – putting the emergency services to the test in a number of disaster training exercises.  On Monday seven Tube carriages were buried under thousands of tons of rubble that poured into Waterloo station following a mock collapse of a tower block on the station. Emergency services had to deal with the hundreds of ‘dead’ bodies scattered throughout the ‘disaster zone’ in day one of upcoming emergencies scheduled for this week.

Deep beneath the heart of Los Angeles’ financial district, hundreds of feet below the huge downtown edifices that house banks, corporate offices, and government agencies, lies another city remembered only in obscure Indian legends, an underground world built by a purportedly strange race of lizard people that vanished five thousand years ago. At least that’s what mining engineer W. Warren Shufelt claimed in the January 29, 1934 edition of the Los Angeles Times. According to reporter Jean Bosquet, Shufelt was ready to dig up downtown L.A. in search of this ancient subterranean civilization.

A toddler was rushed to hospital after falling eight meters to the ground when the bouncy castle she was playing in was swept into the air by a strong gust of wind in Australia. Metro reports: The three-year-old girl fell from the inflatable castle after it was scooped 20 metres through the air. It’s believed the bouncy castle became airborne after one of the pegs securing it to the ground came loose. The child, from Australia, was knocked unconscious by the incident.