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December 29, the first of “seven dangerous days” for the New Year festival, saw 362 accidents, 39 deaths and 362 injuries, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported on Thursday.

A fuel tanker exploded overnight in Cap-Haïtien, Haitis second-largest city, killing at least 60 people and wounding hundreds more, officials said Tuesday, the latest in man-made and natural calamities to rock the beleaguered Caribbean nation this year.

Army pilot trainer Lt-Colonel Parnphong Banjongplien and his student Corporal Chanakorn Piemcharoen were burned to death when their helicopter caught fire and crashed.

"The bodies were transferred to the Sucua morgue," it said, adding that the 25 injured people, including minors and adults, were taken to various local hospitals.

Three Myanmar migrants were killed on the spot and 15 injured when their pickup truck overturned while trying to escape highway police on Asia Road at the Sing Buri-Ayutthaya border on Wednesday.

A construction crane fell on a row of rented rooms in Samut Prakan’s Bang Bo district at about 11.15am on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring three others, including the crane operator.

Rescue workers rushed to Lopburi’s Chai Badan district when they heard about an F5 fighter plane falling from the sky.

DAKAR, Senegal - A fuel tanker exploded on the outskirts of Sierra Leones seaside capital late Friday, killing at least 98 people and wounding dozens of others in one of the deadliest accidents the West African nation has endured in years.

A group of 23 illegal Myanmar migrants, three of whom were dead and four seriously injured, were found stranded on the roadside in Kamphaeng Phet province on Saturday.

A reporter from the Thai language daily KomChadLuek was attacked and killed by a wild elephant in Chanthaburi’s Khao Khitchakut on Friday.

Marine Department officials toiled on Wednesday to salvage 51 containers at the site where two cargo ships crashed into each other on the Chao Phraya River in front of Samut Prakan’s city hall in Muang district on Tuesday afternoon.

A small airplane at a private airport owned by the Sahapat Group in Lamphun’s Muang district ran over and killed a 51-year-old man on Thursday.