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Northern California wildfires

A series of 250 wildfires started burning in Northern California and affected area of nearly 100,000 hectares. The fires claimed 44 lives, 192 people got injured and the flames devoured approximately 8900 homes. The damages reached $14.4 billion (2017 USD).

Jerusalem shooting attack

In 2016 in Jerusalem, Musbah Abu Sbaih, a Hamas militant shot 8 people from a car near the Ammunition Hill light rail stop, killing two and wounding six. The police gave chase, Shaih was shot and killed while shooting at pursuing police.

A landslide in Italy kills more than 2,000 people

During initial filling of the Vajont Dam, a massive landslide caused a man-made tsunami in the lake in which 50 million cubic meters of water over topped the dam in a wave 250 meters high, leading to the complete destruction of several villages and towns, and 1,910 deaths.