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April 3, 2018
(
2018-04-03
)
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economy
- Following the bankruptcy of
UK
engineering outsourcing firm
Carillion
, the Official Receiver reveals more than half of the roughly 20,000 employees have found new jobs.
(Sky News)
- UK
retailer Conviviality, owner of
Bargain Booze
, says it intends to appoint administrators within ten days.
(Citywire)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus crashes in rain and poor visibility at the
Mporokoso
-Luwingu junction in
Zambia
, killing four and injuring 41.
(
Zambia Daily Mail
)
- A double-decker sightseeing bus collides with a car in
Hamburg
,
Germany
, leaving eleven injured.
(
The Local
)
- The
Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
launches an investigation after a burglar dies from burns suffered in a fire in his cell at
HMP Risley
in
England
.
(
Manchester Evening News
)
- A report into the partial collapse of an
Edinburgh
school reveals similar construction errors in nineteen other public buildings in the city.
(
Construction Enquirer
)
- An
air traffic control
system failure in
Europe
delays up to 15,000 flights, according to the
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
.
(BBC)
- Four people, all British nationals, are killed in a head-on collision with a pick-up truck in the U.S. state of
Florida
, according to
Titusville Police Department
.
(BBC)
- Two underground trains collide in
Duisburg
,
Germany
, injuring at least 35.
(Euronews)
- At a
United Nations
donor conference nations pledge
US$
2 billion in aid for
Yemen
, with almost half coming from
Saudi Arabia
and the
United Arab Emirates
.
(
The Guardian
)
- A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter carrying
US Marines
crashes near
El Centro
,
California
killing four people.
(Military Times)
- A bus carrying US tourists crashes near
Los Ramones
,
Mexico
. One person dies and at least 20 are injured.
(WFAA)
- A 13-year-old boy is rescued after falling into a sewer and becoming trapped for 12 hours in
Los Angeles
.
(Isle of Wight Radio)
- A military pilot is killed when his
F-7
fighter jet
crashes into a paddy field in
Kyunkone
, central
Myanmar
.
(The Straits Times)
- A fire in a
Bangkok
apartment building kills three and injures 60.
(The Bangkok Post)
Health and environment
- The
WWF
describes
Germany
's rivers as being in a state "bordering on critical" after it emerges more than 90% do not meet
European Union
standards for cleanliness and ecological quality.
(
The Local
)
International relations
Law and crime
Politics and elections