There was an explosion in the Southgate tube station in London. Early reports say it may have been caused by a battery short circuit. Witnesses say it was extremely loud and saw injured people being taken out in stretchers.
Я хотел бы высказаться по поводу московского события.
Официально утверждается, что водитель заснул за рулем, однако на записи событие выглядит похожим на преднамеренное действие. Возможно это так и есть, но нужно учесть общую ситуацию с такси в городе. Штат водителей в такси укомплектован выходцами из средней азии (Киргизия, Таджикистан, Узбекистан, несколько меньше Туркмения) на 40-50 процентов. Владельцы таксопарков эксплуатируют их нещадно, люди работают по 16-20 часов. Причем проверки при приеме на работу практически нет. Водители не знают город, пользуются навигаторами, а эти гаджеты не всегда корректно работают. Много случаев, когда с водителем практически невозможно объясниться по причине незнания языка. Есть случаи, когда на работу принимали людей никогда не получавших водительских лицензий. Я много времени каждый день провожу на московских дорогах и ответственно могу сказать, что то что вытворяют на дорогах эти азиаты, это просто ужас. И без всякого терроризма.
Во втором видео водитель, совершивший наезд говорит, что водительскую лицензию он получил 5 лет назад, практически ездил только 2 года и в Москве всего один месяц. Непосредственно перед инцидентом находился за рулем 20 часов, перед этим спал 2-3 часа! Чего от такого можно ожидать?! Событие скорее закономерное, чем случайное. И если здесь и можно говорить о терроризме, то со стороны руководства транспортных организаций и контролирующих органов власти. ИМХО
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I would like to speak about the Moscow event.
It is officially claimed that the driver fell asleep at the wheel, but on the record the event looks like a deliberate action. Perhaps this is the case, but keep in mind the overall situation with cabs in the city. The staff of drivers in a taxi is completed with natives of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, a little less than Turkmenistan) by 40-50 percent. The owners of taxi parks operate them mercilessly, people work for 16-20 hours. Moreover, there is practically no check when hiring. Drivers do not know the city, use navigators, and these gadgets do not always work correctly. There are many cases when the driver is almost impossible to explain due to lack of knowledge of the language. There are cases when people never received driver's licenses were employed. I spend a lot of time every day on the Moscow roads and responsibly I can tell that what these Asians do on the roads, it's just awful. And without any terrorism.
In the second video, the driver who made the impact says that he received a driver's license 5 years ago, practically driven only 2 years and in Moscow only one month. Just before the incident was driving for 20 hours, before it slept 2-3 hours! What can you expect from this?! The event is more natural than accidental. And if we can talk about terrorism here, then from the leadership of transport organizations and regulatory authorities. IMHO
hitting pedestrians on Ilyinka
The driver-Kirghiz made arrival on the pedestrians on Ilyinka
1 killed, several injured as car hits people in Sochi, Russia, driver presumably fell asleep
A car crashed into pedestrians in the tourist village of Dagomys in Sochi on the Russian Black Sea coast, killing one person and injuring several others on Wednesday. The driver presumably fell asleep behind the wheel.
A car was driven onto the sidewalk near a pedestrian crossing and ran into six people, a source told Interfax. “One person had died on site, while the others were hospitalized, including two people put in intensive care,” he said.
The police have confirmed the incident, saying that a local 63-year-old man was killed, while three other victims were hospitalized. The driver was a local man, who presumably fell asleep behind the wheel and drove into incoming traffic and ran the people over, they added.
The village of Dagomys is a district of Sochi, located 12 kilometers from the city center. On Saturday, Sochi will host Russia’s quarterfinal match against Croatia in the FIFA World Cup.
On a video of the suspect’s questioning, released by the Moscow police department’s official website, the driver is asked how many hours he had spent behind the wheel. "To be frank, 20 hours," he replied, adding that he only had a pause of two or three hours after finishing his previous 20-hour shift.
The driver said he had mistaken the gas pedal for brakes when he wanted to let a pedestrian cross the road.
A car crashed into pedestrians in the tourist village of Dagomys in Sochi on the Russian Black Sea coast, killing one person and injuring several others on Wednesday. The driver presumably fell asleep behind the wheel.
Just wanted to make note of this for posterity and encourage people to take care. Despite the Russian govt. claiming that the Moscow event yesterday was an accident, it was clearly deliberate. Obviously the other two were. Seems like there's something "in the air". So keep all eyes open!
Suspect dead, 20 injured in New Jersey arts festival shooting
note: edited to include 2 more events. Between Saturday 16th and Monday 18th.
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Following the incident in the German city of Lubeck, the scene around the bus stop has been cordoned off. Trains to the city district of Kucknitz have been disrupted due to the police operation currently underway.
According to the Bild newspaper, 12 people have been slightly injured and two other passengers seriously wounds as a result of an attack on a public bus.
The police have confirmed that there were no fatalities and that the attacker was detained and is currently in custody.
The interior minister of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein stated that the police did not assume that there was a terrorist motive behind the attack. The Lubecker Nachrichten portal reported that the assailant is a 34-year-old man who came from Iran but now is a German national who has lived in Lubeck for years.
The scene around the bus stop has been cordoned off, with a police operation underway.
Lubecker Nachrichten, citing eyewitness reports, said that the fully packed bus was moving in the direction of Travemunde when one of the passengers suddenly took a knife out of his backpack and started to attack people. The driver stopped the bus immediately and opened the doors so that people could flee. At the time, a police vehicle was passing nearby and the incident caught the officers' attention.
"The passengers were jumping out of the bus shouting, it was awful, and then the injured were taken away, the attacker had a kitchen knife," an eyewitness said, as quoted by Lubecker Nachrichten.
A 10-year-old girl from the GTA and an 18-year-old Toronto woman are the two people killed in the shooting rampage Sunday night on the Danforth, police say.
During a brief update Monday, police said of the 15 victims shot, eight were women. They range in age from 10 to 59 years old.
The 29-year-old gunman was also killed.
Police would not speculate on a motive for the shooting, including whether the gunman was deliberately targeting women.
"I can't speak to what was in the individual's mind," said lead investigator Det.-Sgt. Terry Browne.
He said police are in the process of getting a search warrant in relation to the deceased suspect.
Police would say nothing more about the shooter, as his death is now under the mandate of the police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit.
"He received a gunshot wound, but I'm not going to expand on that," Chief Mark Saunders said at the news conference.
The gunman has not been identified, nor have any of the victims.
Shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, the gunman was walking along Danforth Ave. and fired shots at groups of people as they were enjoying a night out in the Greektown neighbourhood.
Police found the shooter on Bowden St., between Logan and Broadview Aves., and an exchange of gunfire took place, the SIU said.
The gunman fled the area and was found dead on Danforth Ave. It's not immediately clear if the man died from self-inflicted gunshots or from gunfire with police.
The gunman was randomly shooting like someone "in a video game," a witness told the Star.
"He was very relaxed, it was pretty disturbing," said Lenny Graf, who was with his wife and his son, 9, and daughter, 8.
Reacting to the attack, Toronto Mayor John Tory argued that the city has a gun problem.
“Why does anyone in this city need to have a gun at all?” he asked city councilors on Monday morning.
Despite relatively restrictive firearms ownership laws, Canadian authorities do not require a medical opinion before someone that is diagnosed with a mental illness is issued a license. Toronto has seen 23 gun-related homicides so far this year, compared to 16 in the first half of 2017.