Deep Freeze Ends Growing Season in Nevada Counties
The growing season has ended for White Pine, Southern Lander and Southern Eureka counties, said NWS.
Temperatures dipped into the 20s across the majority of Southern Lander/Eureka and White Pine counties on Friday, killing most tender vegetation in these areas.
Light freezes have also occurred in other forecast zones including Northern Lander, Northern Eureka, Southeastern Elko and northern Nye counties. Growing season in isolated areas in these counties may have also ended.
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Dozens drown as Nigeria boat sinks
At least 48 people drowned and more that 100 others are reported missing after a boat sank on the River Niger in central Nigeria late Friday, according to local reports.
The boat may have been overloaded, carrying more that two and a half times the number of passengers allowed, reports said.
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Dozens Still missing after refugee boat sinks
“More than 30 people were still missing two days after a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia sank off the Indonesian coast, killing 22 people including seven children,” Indonesian security officials said.
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Dozens killed in Mumbai building collapse
Death toll reached 60 on Sunday in the collapsed apartment building in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, officials said. Some 33 others were rescued from the building’s wreckage.
The five-story building, which collapsed on Friday, was the third deadly cave-in of a Mumbai structure in six months, said a report.
“In April, at least 72 people died when an illegally constructed building fell. Two months later, a three-story structure collapsed, killing at least 10 people, including five children.”
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Giant Hornets Kill Dozens in China
Attacks by swarms of giant hornets in Shaanxi province, central China, has left at least 28 people dead and up to a thousand others injured, many of them seriously, according to reports.
Terrorized victims have described being chased by large swarms of hornets for hundreds of yards and stung as many as 200 times over several minutes.
The insects have a highly toxic sting that can lead to anaphylactic shock and kidney failure, according to experts.
It’s believed that the swarms are populated mainly by the Asian giant hornet or Vespa mandarinia, which grows up to 50mm (2 ins.) long with a 6mm sting.
Experts have previously suggested that warmer temperatures in the region may be responsible for hornets breeding more successfully.
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Wisconsin Gov Signs Emergency Declaration for Buckling I-43 bridge\
A span on the Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge in Green Bay shows signs of buckling Wednesday in this view looking west. Gov. Scott Walker signed an emergency declaration Friday that makes federal funds available for repairs. Photo credit: Jim Matthews/ jsonline.com
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German Town Evacuated after Gas Explosion
The entire town of Hartenhausen (population: ~ 3,000) near Ludwigshafen in central Germany was evacuated on Saturday after a major gas explosion injured 16 firefighters and shattered windows. The blast was so powerful it could be heard up to 30 kilometers away, AP reported.
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50 Nigerian students killed in armed attack
At least 50 Nigerian students have been killed in an armed attack, AP reported. The attack occurred at an agricultural college in northeast Nigeria’s Yobe State. Gunmen broke into the college dorm at night and shot students as they slept. The authorities have blamed the Boko Haram [“Western education is forbidden”] group.
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Bomb blasts kill 39 in Peshawar, NW Pakistan
Two bomb explosions in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar killed 36 people and wounded more than 100 on Sunday, authorities said.
The victims included 12 members of a family who were shopping at the blast sites, according to local officials.
The powerful blasts destroyed about 20 buildings and many vehicles in nearby streets.
The Peshawar twin blasts were the third major terrorist in the city over the past 8 days. A twin suicide bomb attack on a Christian church on September 22 killed more than more than 80 people. On Friday September 27, a bomb planted on a bus carrying local government employees exploded killing at least 19 people.
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Iraq Violence: Death Toll for September Reaches 1,079
At least 30 more people were killed in Iraq Saturday and Sunday, as of posting, in the cities of Arbil, Baghdad, Baiji, Basra, Falluja Mosul, Mussayab, Muqdadiya and Tikrit by bombs, AEDs, IEDs and gunfire, raising the death toll for September to 1,079 so far.
Death toll for 2013 has exceeded 6,000 and is expected to climb higher.
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