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A Brazilian Carnival float from the União de Maricá samba school ran over several individuals during Sunday’s parade in Rio de Janeiro, leaving at least three injured, one in critical condition.

A LifeFlight helicopter crash has taken the life of one crew member and put two others in critical condition about 30 miles from Nashville, Tennessee.

Three people have been pronounced dead following tragic boating accident at the Major League Fishing tournament on Wednesday. 

The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast.

A man died in Virginia recently after a bear fell out of a tree on top of him when his hunting partner shot it with a rifle.

Former New York Rep. Michael Grimm (R) was left “paralyzed” after being “thrown from a horse” while playing in a polo tournament in September.

A man who recently visited an amusement park in Mason, Ohio, has died at a hospital after being hit by a roller coaster.

A 33-year-old paraglider who recently crashed near Austin, Texas, while flying 48 miles per hour was hurt but lived to tell the tale.

Over 40 people remained stranded in cable cars in Turkey on Saturday, 19 hours after a pod hit a pole, killing one person and injuring seven.

A bus with 46 Christians on board veered off a bridge in the mountains of South Africa, killing all passengers except an 8-year-old girl.

The ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge causing its collapse was involved in an accident overseas several years ago.

A young girl died after being buried alive when a hole she and her brother were digging on a Florida beach collapsed on them Tuesday.

A tech company’s CEO was killed, and its president severely hurt, during a freak accident at a corporate event Thursday evening in Hyderabad, India.

NYC comedian Kenny DeForest tragically died after being hospitalized last week following an e-bike accident that left him with a brain bleed.

A routine MRI scan turned into a nightmare at a California medical facility in February, and the investigation into the incident was recently completed.

A 61-year-old hiker fell from a steep cliff and died Saturday at the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

A bystander nearly drowned trying to save a woman who fell off a pontoon boat on a lake in Illinois on Father’s Day.

BMX rider and married father of two children Pat Casey died Tuesday after attempting to perform a motocross bike stunt at a private track in Raymona, California.

A Pennsylvania baseball player died Tuesday when a dugout collapsed on him, and the community is reeling from the loss.

Two dozen people, many of them schoolchildren, were injured when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in a southern Finnish city.

A 66-year-old woman in England reportedly died after falling out of the back of an ambulance, an inquest has been told.

A man survived after his bungee cord snapped while he was visiting an adventure park in Pattaya, Thailand, recently.

One boy was killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by a freight train in western Germany, police said Friday.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) was released from the hospital on Saturday and is recovering after being involved in an accident at his Florida property late in the afternoon last Wednesday.

Democrat Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) is recovering from a concussion after being struck by a car while crossing the street with her husband on Friday night.

A huge aquarium in the center of Berlin burst Friday, causing a wave of devastation in and around the Sea Life tourist attraction.

Chinese state media on Sunday reported 27 people were killed in an early-morning bus crash on an expressway in Guizhou province. Outrage spread across China when officials confirmed the bus was hauling captive “epidemic-related people” to a quarantine camp over 125 miles from their homes.

A three-car pileup caused by a pack of wild boars in northern Greece killed two people and left four more hospitalized, police said Tuesday.

A 33-year-old mother was tragically killed, while her son and nephew were injured, in a parasailing accident where they collided with the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys on Memorial Day.

A train collided with a bus and derailed at a railroad crossing in southern Germany on Tuesday, police said. Several people were injured.

A Tibet Airlines jet caught fire moments before it was scheduled to lift off on Thursday at an airport in China’s Chongqing city, causing injury to more than 40 passengers as they evacuated the aircraft, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A cable-car accident in eastern India’s Jharkhand state on Sunday — which left dozens of frightened passengers hanging mid-air for 40 consecutive hours — turned deadly after two people fell to their deaths during subsequent helicopter rescue missions and a third person died from injuries sustained inside one of the carriages, the Indian Express reported Thursday.

A Canadian arborist died in a horrendous wood chipper accident Wednesday morning in Oshawa, Ontario, according to reports. 

Madagascar Police Minister Gen. Serge Gellé told reporters on Tuesday he swam for 12 consecutive hours in the Indian Ocean from Monday night through Tuesday morning until he reached a shore near Madagascar’s Mahambo town after he survived a helicopter crash that left him stranded in the sea, Sky News reported Thursday.

A German court has ruled that a man who broke his back while moving from his bed to his home office was commuting and is owed compensation.

A 16-year-old was killed and her three-year-old cousin was injured in a sledding accident in upstate New York in which the sled collided with a tree at the bottom of a hill.