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At least ten people are dead and 251 injured after a toxic gas tank exploded and released toxic gas over a Jordanian port when workers dropped it on to the dock of a ship.
The crane can be seen dangling the container over the ship before releasing it early, letting it fall to the ground where it explodes in a plume of yellow smoke.
Workers were trying to place the tank on to a container ship, with officials said the cylinder contained chlorine about to be exported overseas.
Port workers were caught on camera trying to flee the fumes.
A statement seen by the Jordan Times said the leak resulted from a technical malfunction in the switch of the 1,500-litre chlorine cylinder.
HOW TOXIC IS CHLORINE?
Chlorine, which is normally used to disinfect swimming pools and sanitize sewage, is toxic in concentrated doses.
Most incidents of chlorine poisoning result from ingesting household cleaners, as it is common in cleaning products.
Chlorine poisoning can cause symptoms throughout your body. Respiratory symptoms include coughing, difficulty breathing and fluid inside the lungs.
In extreme cases, it can cause skin burns and vision loss, changing the pH balance of the blood.
The Imperial State of Germany used chlorine gas as a weapon against the allies during the First World War to clear enemy forward positions in the battle of Ypres - although France was actually was the first to use gas and the British later used it in combat.
It can react with water in the lungs to form hydrochloric acid, resulting in approximately 30,000 deaths on both sides.
The Geneva Protocol banned the use of chlorine gas in 1925.
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Absurd death: A resident of Tatarstan Zelenodolsk went to a liquor store, slipped on a tile, hit his head and died instantly.
Relatives of a 58-year-old man have big complaints about the outlet. Interestingly, the morgue gave a conclusion that death was supposedly due to a heart attack.
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Mexican boxer Jeanette Zacarias Zapata died days after suffering several blows to the head during a match. Video from the fight showed her falling unconscious and convulsing at the end of the fourth round. She was just 18.
Mexican boxer Jeanette Zacarias Zapata has died at the age of 18, five days after being knocked out in a professional fight.
Zapata was knocked out in the fourth round against Marie Pier Houle on Saturday night at the GVM Gala International in Montreal.
She suffered a series of power punches in the corner of the ring and was stunned by an uppercut towards the end of the fourth round, before a right hook caused her mouthguard to fly out, leaving her unable to return to the corner after the bell rang.
Zapata, who appeared to convulse while still standing, was joined by her partner and trainer Jovanni Martinez, who quickly laid her down in the ring. The on-site medical team rushed to her side and she was immobilized on a stretcher before being rushed to a hospital by ambulance.
Fight promoter Yvon Michel briefed on Sunday that Zapata had been placed in a medically induced coma, and confirmed her death on Thursday.
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A mother was killed when she fell into an escalator at a shopping mall in China, after she heroically threw her toddler to safety.
Xiang Liujuan, 30, was travelling up the escalator at Anliang department store in Jingzhou, in the central province of Hubei, with her two-year-old son.
When the pair reached the top, however, a floor-plate gave way and the woman fell through the floor, as captured by CCTV.
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Eighteen people, including the driver and the conductor of a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus sustained injuries after the bus hit a pole in west Delhi's Rajouri Garden area on Thursday, an offic
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AFTERMATH INCLUDED BELOW
A short time ago, a report was received at MDA's 101 hotline in the Yarkon region about a worker who was hit by a heavy object, during his work at a factory in the Ariel Industrial Park. MDA medics and paramedics determine the death of a 30-year-old worker with a head injury.
MDA paramedic Shir Salman said: "The worker was lying on the road in the factory where he works, after being hit on the head by a heavy object during his work at the factory. We performed medical tests on him, but unfortunately he was found with a severe head injury and no signs of life, and we had to pronounce him dead on the spot."
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Japanese Youtuber chokes to death while attempting Onigiri Challenge, a challenge where you have to eat a rice ball in 30 seconds.