502 cases
Major Tragedies
Major disasters and tragedies that left a mark on collective memory.
Kartalkaya Hotel Fire›The Jet Set Nightclub Roof Collapse›The Wang Fuk Court Fire — Flames Along the Scaffolding›The Kočani Nightclub Fire›Glória Funicular Crash›Air India Flight 171 Crash›Shahid Rajaee Port Explosion›Gayrettepe Nightclub Fire›The Novi Sad Railway Station Canopy Collapse›The Jeju Air Flight 2216 Disaster — Muan Airport›The Zhuhai Sports Centre Car Attack›Hathras Stampede›The Balıkesir Explosives Factory Blast›Tünektepe Cable Car Accident›İsias Hotel Case›Rönesans Residence Case›The Tempi Train Disaster›Shakahola Forest Deaths›The Hanoi Mini-Apartment Fire›Qaraqosh Wedding Hall Fire›Collapse of the Derna Dams›The Charles University Shooting›The Pylos Migrant Boat Disaster›Yeti Airlines Flight 691 Crash›The Marshalltown Building Fire›6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes›2023 Şanlıurfa–Adıyaman Floods›Amasra Mine Disaster›İstiklal Avenue Bombing›Itaewon Crowd Crush›Aqaba Port Chlorine Gas Disaster›The Enyobeni Tavern Tragedy›The Cetinje Shooting›The Thuận An Karaoke Bar Fire›The Kanjuruhan Stadium Disaster›Morbi Suspension Bridge Collapse›The Owo Church Attack›Migrants Frozen to Death on the İpsala Border›Mezitli Police Guesthouse Attack›Derik Double Truck Crash›The Apiate Explosion›Taroko Express 408 — The Truck at the Tunnel Mouth›The 2021 Kabul Airport Attack›Ibn al-Khatib Hospital Fire›Mount Meron Crowd Crush›The Kongsberg Attack›The Guayaquil Prison Massacre›The Kitashinchi Psychiatric Clinic Arson›The Kaohsiung Cheng Chung Cheng Building Fire›Al-Hussein Hospital Fire, Nasiriyah›The Freetown Fuel Tanker Explosion›2021 Manavgat Forest Fire›2021 Rize Floods›2021 Bozkurt Flood Disaster›Tatvan Military Helicopter Crash›The Struma Motorway Bus Fire›Rıza Bey Apartment Case›Hendek Fireworks Factory Explosion›The Nova Scotia Attacks (Portapique)›Beirut Port Explosion›The Korat Mass Shooting›Hanau Racist Attack›Vienna Shooting Attack›The Piatra Neamț Hospital Fire›PIA Flight 8303 Crash›Shootdown of Ukraine International Airlines PS752›The Lekki Toll Gate Shooting (#EndSARS)›2020 Giresun–Dereli Floods›2020 Elazığ–Sivrice Earthquake›Bahçesaray Avalanche Disaster›Lake Van Migrant Boat Disaster›Kyoto Animation Arson Attack›Christchurch Mosque Attacks›The Brumadinho Dam Collapse›The 2019 Easter Sunday Attacks›Mosul Ferry Disaster›The Hableány Tour Boat Disaster›The Crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302›The Tlahuelilpan Pipeline Explosion›The Ostrava University Hospital Shooting›The Whakaari / White Island Eruption›The DusitD2 Complex Attack›Çorlu Train Derailment›Ankara High-Speed Train Crash›The Crash of Cubana Flight 972›The Danghara Attack on Cyclists›The Toronto Van Attack›Collapse of the Ponte Morandi›The Mati Wildfire Disaster›The Miryang Sejong Hospital Fire›The Lion Air Flight 610 Crash›The MV Nyerere Ferry Disaster›The Fuego Volcano Eruption›Reina Nightclub Attack›The Grenfell Tower Fire›Typhoon Hato — The Day Macau Went Dark›Collapse of the Plasco Building›Koshe Landfill Landslide›The Dacha-Suu Cargo Plane Disaster›The Quebec City Mosque Attack›The Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting›Hotel Rigopiano Avalanche›Pedrógão Grande Forest Fire›Drottninggatan Truck Attack›The Jecheon Sports Centre Fire›The Resorts World Manila Attack›Ahmedpur East Tanker Fire›Meethotamulla Garbage Dump Collapse›Al-Rawda Mosque Attack›İzmir Courthouse Attack›Atatürk Airport Attack›Beşiktaş Stadium Bombings›Gaziantep Wedding Bombing›Sultanahmet Square Bombing›Kızılay Güvenpark Bombing›The 17 February 2016 Merasim Street Bombing in Ankara›The Tsukui Yamayuri-en Care Home Attack›The Pulse Nightclub Attack›Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market Attack›Brussels Bombings›The Hitrino Train Explosion›Holey Artisan Bakery Attack›The Life Esidimeni Tragedy›Marmaris Hotel Raid of 15 July›2016 Kayseri Bombing›Şirvan Copper Mine Landslide›Suruç Bombing›Ankara Railway Station Bombing›The 13 November Paris Attacks›The Colectiv Nightclub Fire›The Tianjin Port Explosions›The Formosa Fun Coast Fire — The Party Where Coloured Powder Ignited›Grand Mosque Crane Collapse›The 2015 Copenhagen Attacks›The Emanuel AME Church Shooting›The Mariana Dam Collapse›Germanwings Flight 9525›The Uherský Brod Restaurant Shooting›The Eastern Star Disaster — Yangtze River›The TransAsia Flight 235 Crash — Keelung River›The Erawan Shrine Bombing›Mina Crowd Crush›Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq Mosque Bombing›Sousse Beach Attack›The Garissa University Attack›The Charlie Hebdo Attack›The Bardo Museum Attack›The Gunashli Platform No. 10 Fire›The MH17 Disaster›Soma Mine Disaster›Ermenek Mine Disaster›Torun Center Elevator Disaster›Sewol Ferry Disaster›Lagos Church Guesthouse Collapse›The Lindt Cafe Siege›The Taipei Metro Stabbing›The Odesa Trade Unions House Fire›The Kunming Railway Station Attack›The Kaohsiung Underground Gas Explosions›Reyhanlı Bombings›The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster›The Kiss Nightclub Fire›The Rana Plaza Collapse›Crash of LAM Flight 470›The Zolitūde Shopping Centre Collapse›Velika Ivanča Massacre›The Boston Marathon Bombing›Angrois Train Crash›The Baoyuanfeng Poultry Plant Fire›In Amenas Hostage Crisis›The Westgate Shopping Mall Attack›Cilvegözü Border Gate Bombing›Afyonkarahisar Ammunition Depot Explosion›Port Said Stadium Disaster›Marikana Massacre›The Lamma Ferry Collision — Fireworks Night›The Baldia Town Factory Fire›The Comayagua Prison Fire›The Once Train Disaster›The Szczekociny Train Collision›The Czech Methanol Scandal›The Burgas Airport Bus Bombing›Tazreen Fashions Factory Fire›The Crash of Dana Air Flight 992›The Costa Concordia Disaster›Pınarbaşı Police Headquarters Attack›Safa Apartment disaster — Van earthquake›Çöllolar Mine Landslide›The 22 July Attacks — Oslo and Utøya›The Wenzhou High-Speed Train Collision›The Roboski (Uludere) Airstrike›The Casino Royale Arson Attack›Ridderhof Shopping Centre Shooting›The Mari Naval Base Explosion›AMRI Hospital Fire›The Sinai Pipeline Fire›The MV Spice Islander I Ferry Disaster›The Argana Café Bombing›Karadon Mine Disaster›The Tivoli Gardens Incursion›The San Miguel Prison Fire›The Shanghai Jiaozhou Road High-Rise Fire›Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 Disaster›Pike River Mine Disaster›The Devínska Nová Ves Shooting›The San Fernando Migrant Massacre›Cumbria Shootings›Love Parade Disaster›The Ajka Red Sludge Disaster›The Manila Bus Hostage Crisis›Air India Express Flight 812 Crash›Airblue Flight 202 Crash›Nimtali Fire›Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 Crash›Mount Carmel Forest Fire›The Koh Pich Bridge Stampede›Maguindanao Massacre›Princess Ashika Ferry Disaster›Lame Horse Nightclub Fire›The Handlová Mine Explosion›The Sayano-Shushenskaya Power Station Accident›The Santika Nightclub Fire›The Air France Flight 447 Disaster›The 2009 Saray Floods›Reşadiye Ambush›Davutpaşa Explosion›Güngören Bombings›The Akihabara Massacre›Rosamor Factory Fire›The Gërdec Munitions Explosions›Spanair Flight 5022 Crash›Kauhajoki School Shooting›The Studénka Train Disaster›Kütahya Pamukkale Express Derailment›The Porvenir Massacre›The Jokela School Shooting›The TAM Flight 3054 Disaster›The Virginia Tech Massacre›The Kornat Wildfire Tragedy›The Zasyadko Mine Disaster›Atlasjet Flight 4203 Crash›The Cần Thơ Bridge Collapse›The Poisoned Cough Syrup Disaster›Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 Ferry Disaster›The Katowice Trade Hall Roof Collapse›The Halemba Mine Disaster›The Hejce Military Plane Crash›The Abule Egba Pipeline Explosion›2006 Antalya Bombing›Beni Suef Cultural Palace Fire›The Crash of Helios Airways Flight 522›The Amagasaki Rail Crash — Speed on the Curve›Al-Aimmah Bridge Stampede›Amman Hotel Bombings›The 7 July 2005 London Bombings›Kuşadası Minibus Bombing›The Antuco Tragedy›Pamukova Train Derailment›Zümrüt Apartment Collapse›The República Cromañón Fire›The Madrid Train Bombings (11-M)›The Ycuá Bolaños Supermarket Fire›Ghislenghien Gas Explosion›The SuperFerry 14 Bombing›Peraliya Tsunami Train Disaster›Nishapur Train Disaster›2003 Istanbul Bombings›The Daegu Subway Fire›The Station Nightclub Fire›The JW Marriott Jakarta Bombing›16 May Casablanca Bombings›Crash of the Spanish Peacekeepers' Plane›Turkish Airlines Flight 634 Crash, Diyarbakır›The Utopía Nightclub Fire›The 2002 Bali Bombings›Ikeja Armoury Explosion›Le Joola Ferry Disaster›The Moscow Theatre Siege (Nord-Ost)›El Ayyat Train Fire›2002 Çay–Sultandağı Earthquake›The Ghriba Synagogue Bombing›Nepalese Royal Massacre›The Kabukicho Myojo 56 Building Fire›Versailles Wedding Hall Collapse›Bab El Oued Flood Disaster›Accra Stadium Disaster›The Zug Parliament Attack›The Hintze Ribeiro Bridge Collapse›The Pärnu Methanol Poisoning›The Mesa Redonda Fire›Linate Airport Runway Collision›The Ellis Park Stadium Disaster›The September 11 Attacks›Kanungu Church Fire›The Enschede Fireworks Disaster›The Kaprun Funicular Disaster›Concorde Crash›The Kursk Submarine Disaster›The Rizal Day Bombings›Gulf Air Flight 072 Crash›Uşak Prison Riot›The Express Samina Ferry Disaster›The Armenian Parliament Shooting›The Tashkent Bombings›The Columbine High School Attack›Galtür Avalanche›Gaisal Train Disaster›The Odi Massacre›The 1999 Gölcük Earthquake›12 November 1999 Düzce Earthquake›The Grdelica Train Bombing›The Eschede Train Disaster›The Gothenburg Discotheque Fire›The Swissair Flight 111 Disaster›Omagh Bombing›The Jesse Pipeline Fire›The Nairobi US Embassy Bombing›1998 Adana–Ceyhan Earthquake›Diana, Princess of Wales — The Paris Crash›The Uphaar Cinema Fire›The Acteal Massacre›The Otranto Tragedy (Katër i Radës)›The Korean Air Flight 801 Disaster — Nimitz Hill›The Thredbo Landslide›Luxor Massacre›The Bentalha Massacre›Port Arthur Massacre›The Garley Building Fire — Welding in the Lift Shaft›MV Bukoba Ferry Disaster›The Eldorado do Carajás Massacre›Charkhi Dadri Mid-Air Collision›The Hijacking and Ditching of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961›The 1996 Everest Disaster›The Tokyo Metro Sarin Attack›Oklahoma City Bombing›The Sampoong Department Store Collapse›Baku Metro Fire›1995 Dinar Earthquake›Senirkent Flood Disaster›The Sorgun Mine Disaster: Firedamp at the Madsan Pit›The Tuzla Kapija Massacre›The Srebrenica Genocide›The Matsumoto Sarin Attack›The AMIA Bombing›The MS Estonia Disaster›The Solar Temple Deaths›The Falun Massacre›The Sinking of the '13 de Marzo' Tugboat›The Markale Market Massacre›The Seongsu Bridge Collapse›Turkish Airlines Flight 278: The Third Approach at Van›Sivas Madımak Hotel Massacre›The Waco Siege›Ümraniye Hekimbaşı landfill explosion›The Lan Kwai Fong New Year Crush›The Kader Toy Factory Fire›The Highland Towers Collapse›The Heidelberg Tavern Attack›The St James Church Attack›The Zambia National Football Team Air Disaster›Bingöl Ambush of 24 May 1993›Başbağlar Village Attack›The Üzengili Avalanche: Snow upon the Village›Kozlu Firedamp Disaster›The Carandiru Prison Massacre›The Westray Mine Disaster›Mont Sainte-Odile Air Crash›Furiani Stadium Disaster›Bijlmer Air Disaster›PIA Flight 268 Crash›The Boipatong Massacre›The Bisho Massacre›The Çorlu Factory Explosion (1992)›1992 Erzincan Earthquake›The Luby's Cafeteria Massacre›Moby Prince Disaster›The January Events in Vilnius›Yeni Çeltek Mine Disaster›The Scandinavian Star Ferry Fire›Aramoana Massacre›The Happy Land Social Club Arson›The June 1990 Mineriad›Black January in Baku›The École Polytechnique Massacre›The Hillsborough Disaster›The Bombing of Avianca Flight 203›The Caracazo›Marchioness Disaster›The April 9 Tragedy in Tbilisi›Pan Am 103 — The Lockerbie Bombing›The Iran Air 655 Disaster›Ouvéa Cave Hostage Crisis›The Piper Alpha Disaster›Clapham Junction Rail Crash›Ramstein Air Show Disaster›Çatak Landslide Disaster›Brothers Home — Busan's Internment Facility›The MV Doña Paz Disaster›Hungerford Massacre›King's Cross Underground Fire›Hipercor Bombing›The Crash of SAA Flight 295 'Helderberg'›The Herald of Free Enterprise Ferry Disaster›The Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire›Neve Shalom Synagogue attack›The Hotel New World Collapse›The Lake Nyos Disaster›The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster›The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster›The Palace of Justice Siege›The JAL 123 Disaster — Mount Osutaka›The Heysel Stadium Disaster›Valley Parade Stadium Fire›Bhopal Gas Tragedy›Brighton Grand Hotel Bombing›Armutçuk Firedamp Disaster›The Rangoon Bombing›1983 Erzurum–Kars Earthquake›Turkish Airlines Flight 158: A Snowy Night at Esenboğa›The Uiryeong Massacre — A Night in Gungnyu›The Hotel New Japan Fire›Esenboğa Airport Attack›The Stardust Nightclub Fire›The El Mozote Massacre›The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse›The Pancarköy Disaster›The Bologna Station Massacre›Oktoberfest Bombing›The Ustica Disaster›The Spanish Embassy Fire›Alexander L. Kielland Platform Disaster›The Çorum Events: Milönü in the Summer of 1980›The Whiddy Island Disaster›The Rotunda PKO Explosion›1979 THY 'Trabzon' Plane Crash›The Independenta Disaster: A Month-Long Fire on the Bosphorus›The Jonestown Massacre›The Los Alfaques Campsite Disaster›Cinema Rex Fire›Maraş Massacre›The Tenerife Airport Disaster›Taksim Square May Day 1977›The Granville Rail Disaster›The 1977 Vrancea Earthquake›THY 452: The Airliner That Hit the Isparta Mountains›The 6 October 1976 Thammasat University Massacre›1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye Earthquake›Chasnala Mining Disaster›1975 Lice Earthquake›Dublin and Monaghan Bombings›Turkish Airlines Flight 301 Crash›Whiskey Au Go Go Nightclub Firebombing›The Andes Tragedy — Flight 571›The Munich Olympics Massacre›The Sennichi Department Store Fire — The Seventh-Floor Cabaret›The Kızıldere Incident›The Attica Prison Uprising›1971 Burdur Earthquake›1971 Bingöl Earthquake›The Gediz Earthquake: A Town Destroyed at Night›The Kent State Shootings›Club Cinq-Sept Fire›The Huascarán Avalanche That Buried Yungay›The Alaşehir Earthquake: A Pre-Dawn Shock›The Tlatelolco Massacre›1968 Bartın Earthquake›1967 Kayseri Stadium Disaster›The 1967 Mudurnu Valley Earthquake: Adapazarı Shaken›The University of Texas Tower Shooting›1966 Varto Earthquake›The 1964 Manyas Earthquake›The Estadio Nacional Disaster›Vajont Dam Disaster›The Sharpeville Massacre›The La Coubre Explosion›Üsküdar Ferry Disaster›The Munich Air Disaster — Manchester United›1957 Fethiye Earthquakes›The Yarımburgaz Train Crash: Head-On on a Single Track›The 1955 Le Mans Disaster›The 6–7 September 1955 Events: Pillage Sparked by a False Report›The Tangiwai Rail Disaster›The 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake›The Dumlupınar Submarine Disaster›The Superga Air Disaster — Grande Torino›1944 Bolu–Gerede Earthquake›1943 Tosya–Ladik Earthquake›The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire›1942 Niksar–Erbaa Earthquake›The Kōwhitirangi Shootings (1941)›1939 Erzincan Earthquake›The Tsuyama Massacre›1938 Kırşehir Earthquake›The Hindenburg Disaster›Biatorbágy Viaduct Train Bombing›The Tulsa Race Massacre (Greenwood)›The Halifax Explosion›The Sinking of the Lusitania›The Sinking of the Titanic›The 1912 Mürefte Earthquake›The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire›The 1855 Bursa Earthquake›