Latest news with #masscasualty
CNA
03-06-2025
- Health
- CNA
Red Cross confirms 27 killed in Gaza after gunfire on aid seekers
GAZA CITY: The International Committee of the Red Cross said its field hospital in Gaza's Rafah city recorded 27 deaths on Tuesday (Jun 3), matching a toll given by rescuers after Israeli forces opened fire near an aid centre. "Early this morning, the 60-bed Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah received a mass casualty influx of 184 patients. This includes 19 cases who were declared dead upon arrival and eight more who died due to their wounds shortly after," the ICRC said. The organisation added in a statement that survivors of the early morning incident said they had been "trying to reach an assistance distribution site". Gaza's civil defence agency earlier said 27 people were killed after Israeli troops fired on a crowd near a US-backed aid distribution centre. The Israeli military said some people moving towards the aid centre had left the designated route, prompting "warning fire". "After the suspects failed to retreat, additional shots were directed near a few individual suspects," a military statement added. Army spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised statement that the "suspects... were approaching in a way that endangered... the safety of the soldiers". "The incident is being investigated", he added. The ICRC said Tuesday's shooting caused "the highest number of weapon-wounded patients received in a single incident" since the field hospital opened more than a year ago. "The unprecedented scale and frequency of recent mass casualty incidents treated at the field hospital is deeply worrying and illustrates the harrowing reality that civilians in Gaza are being forced to endure," it added. A similar shooting incident occurred near the same aid centre on Sunday, when rescuers reported 31 killed by Israeli gunfire and a military source acknowledged "warning shots were fired towards several suspects".
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Yahoo
11 injured, including 2 children, in Florida boat explosion
May 26 (UPI) -- A boat explosion on Memorial Day in Florida injured eleven people, including two children, according to Fort Lauderdale fire officials, who declared a "mass casualty incident." A total of 13 people were aboard the boat at the Lauderdale Yacht Club in Fort Lauderdale when it exploded or caught fire near the New River Triangle sandbar around 5:45 p.m. EDT, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to the yacht club, located along the Intracoastal Waterway. The injured, including two children, were rushed to Broward General Hospital, with one burn victim flown by helicopter to Jackson Memorial-Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, according to first responders. While there was no information on the conditions of those injured, first responders and witnesses said several people were in the water and others appeared to have suffered burns. One witness, who lives nearby, told the Miami Herald he saw first responders treating a man. "He was moving around and talking, but it seemed like he had severe burns on his arms because they had it wrapped in gauze and everything," said Josh McCarty. Other witnesses described the boat as a 40-foot motorboat, as investigators look into what may have caused the explosion or fire. "There was this boat trying to leave the sandbar and when they went to start their boat up, it just exploded," said witness Bret Triano. "It was a huge fireball and people were kind of falling off the boat, so we were at the sandbar too, and we just tried to go help out." This is a developing story
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Yahoo
Mass casualty incident declared at Black Bike Week concert in South Carolina: reports
Authorities are investigating reports of a 'mass casualty incident' during a concert at Black Bike Week in Atlantic Beach, South Carolina, Saturday night, according to local reports. The annual Memorial Day weekend event, which drew in thousands of bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts, many from the Black community, turned into a chaotic scene with multiple people injured, according to Channel 2 Now. Emergency responders said 10 people were taken to the hospital with injuries, according to Channel 2 Now. It was not immediately clear what caused the incident or the nature of the injuries sustained by attendees. The Atlantic Beach Bike Festival has been hosted at Atlantic Beach and other nearby beaches over Memorial Day weekend for years and draws in a large crowd of bikers, according to Myrtle Beach Online. This year's event is being held from Friday to Monday, according to the report. Atlantic Beach Interim Police Chief Carlos Castillo told ABC 15 that no information regarding the online reports could be released at this time. Atlantic Beach police did not immediately return The Independent's request for comment Sunday morning. Local emergency medical services were still at the scene Sunday morning, and North Strand and Grand Strand hospitals were placed on diversion or near-diversion status due to the sudden influx of patients, according to Channel 2. This is a developing story...
Daily Mail
25-05-2025
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Mass casualty event declared as Memorial Day Weekend celebration erupts in chaos
Police are investigating reports of a 'mass casualty incident' at a Memorial Day weekend event in South Carolina. The incident occurred during a concert at Black Bike Week in Atlantic Beach Saturday night, reported The Independent. Atlantic Beach Interim Police Chief Carlos Castillo told WPDE no information can be released at this time, but he will answer questions later. At least 10 people were reportedly taken to the hospital. It is unclear what caused the incident or the extent of the injuries. The Black Pearl Cultural Heritage and Bike Festival, also called Black Bike Week, is expected to draw crowds of over 400,000 people. This year is the 45th anniversary of the motorcycle rally which includes meet and greets, parties, live music and entertainment.
The Guardian
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Doctor Who: The Interstellar Song Contest – season two episode six recap
For an episode that started out like a joyfully camp romp into the world of Eurovision, Juno Dawson turned in a script that truly had ice in its heart, in just the way the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) told Kid (Freddie Fox) that the Time Lord now had ice in his hearts. Doctor Who stories often feature alien invasions, conquest, destruction and the desire for revenge, but they have seldom so bleakly painted the determination to carry out a mass casualty terrorism event. That in turn provoked one of the most extreme reactions we have ever seen from the lead character. It was all quite an abrupt turn tonally, in an episode that felt fun but thin for the opening act. It had a larger ensemble cast to play with than some other stories this season, although it was fortunate that, separated, both the Doctor and Belinda (Varada Sethu) found themselves trapped with somebody who turned out to have technical expertise working bits of the space station. The episode tackled several big themes at once – the rapacious capitalist exploitation of a planet to harvest a product, widely held dismissive and racist attitudes to an entire species, the pain of Miriam-Teak Lee's character having to endure mutilation in order to fit in and participate in society, and the Doctor's judgment that none of these things in turn could justify the actions of someone with a 'cold filthy heart' that just likes to kill. Before all that was the colour rush of watching the contest unfold. Your mileage may have varied here depending on how big a fan of Eurovision you are. Who could have guessed that Rylan would have more than a brief cameo? His self-deprecating persona was perfect for the part Dawson wrote for him, allowing him to roll with the jokes about his teeth and his career. But perhaps the hardest thing to make believable was that any of the alien interstellar contestants and their songs from the future were as outlandish as some of the creations we have seen over the years on Earth at the real event. What if Doctor Who did Eurovision in space, but in the middle of a terrorist attack? Last season's interactions between Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) and the Doctor relied on the audience taking at face value that they had become best buddies off-screen. The relationship between Belinda and the Doctor has been much more convincing. She looked genuinely taken aback when she witnessed the Doctor going into rage mode for the first time, and he was only ultimately held back when he saw his actions reflected in her expression. And then there was Carole Ann Ford, who played William Hartnell's first Doctor's granddaughter in 1963 in the show's very first episode, seemingly on board the 15th Doctor's Tardis. Last season had teased a return for her, only to bait-and-switch the viewer that it was SUtekh not SUsan all the clues had been pointing to. But there Susan was. What can it all mean? The faceless robot guards were a classic Doctor Who background trope, extras deployed to deliver a bit of firepower but no real thrill. It was the Doctor who was by far the most frightening thing here. Gatwa has clearly had swagger, style and charisma to carry off the lighter side of his character, but here for the first time he was really able to flex being the oncoming storm, the Time Lord Victorious, the one thing you never put in a trap. In both his conversation with Kid over the video link, and the subsequent extended torture scene, Gatwa passed this Doctorly character test with flying colours. Is it reading too much into the fact that last week out of the blue we saw Poppy, the captain from Space Babies, and this week the product driving the narrative was Poppy Honey? Probably. And there was dear old Mrs Flood, actively surveilling our heroes and clearly readying to put her dastardly bigeneration plan into action. Ford's appearance won't have taken William Russell's world record for longest gap between appearances as the same character in the same show. She reprised her role as Susan in 1983's The Five Doctors. Russell set the record when he appeared in The Power of the Doctor in 2022, 57 years after his character, Ian Chesterton's initial departure. The Rani, originally played by Kate O'Mara, first appeared as a renegade Time Lord in 1985's The Mark of the Rani. When Archie Panjabi said she was the definite article, she was echoing Tom Baker's words in his 1974 debut story, Robot, where, newly-regenerated, he told Harry Sullivan 'You may be a doctor, but I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.' In 2002, Sylvester McCoy's Doctor and Bonnie Langford's Mel visited the Intergalactic Song Contest in an expanded media audio adventure called Bang-Bang-a-Boom! Graham Norton got to deliver the news of Earth's destruction in hologram format. He has previously made not one but two unscheduled Doctor Who appearances. First, a BBC One sound error added a cheering crowd and his hot mic voice to the tense opening of Rose in 2005. Second, an overlaid cartoon promo of him generated 5,000 complaints for ruining the cliffhanger of The Time of Angels in 2010. He got exterminated for it. Wish World is already upon us, part one of the season finale. See you then! Season 2 Episode 1: The Robot Revolution Episode 2: Lux Episode 3: The Well Episode 4: Lucky Day Episode 5: The Story and the Engine Episode 6: The Interstellar Song Contest Episode 7: Wish World Episode 8: The Reality War Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2: Space Babies / The Devil's Chord Episode 3: Boom Episode 4: 73 Yards Episode 5: Dot and Bubble Episode 6: Rogue Episode 7: The Legend of Ruby Sunday Episode 8: Empire of Death Christmas special: Joy to the World 60th anniversary specials Special 1: The Star BeastSpecial 2: Wild Blue YonderSpecial 3: The GiggleChristmas special: The Church on Ruby Road Flux / Series 13 Chapter one: The Halloween ApocalypseChapter two: War of the SontaransChapter three: Once, Upon TimeChapter four: Village of the AngelsChapter five: Survivors of the FluxChapter six: The VanquishersNew Year's Special: Eve of the DaleksSpring special: Legend of the Sea DevilsBBC centenary special: The Power of the Doctor Series 12 Episode 1: Spyfall part oneEpisode 2: Spyfall part twoEpisode 3: Orphan 55Episode 4: Nikola Tesla's Night of TerrorEpisode 5: Fugitive of the JudoonEpisode 6: PraxeusEpisode 7: Can You Hear Me?Episode 8: The Haunting of Villa DiodatiEpisode 9: Ascension of the CybermenEpisode 10: The Timeless ChildrenNew Year's special: Revolution of the Daleks Series 11 Episode 1: The Woman Who Fell to EarthEpisode 2: The Ghost MonumentEpisode 3: RosaEpisode 4: Arachnids in the UKEpisode 5: The Tsuangra CondundrumEpisode 6: Demons of the PunjabEpisode 7: Kerblam!Episode 8: The WitchfindersEpisode 9: It Takes You AwayEpisode 10: The Battle of Ranskoor Av KolosNew Year's special: Resolution Series 10 Episode 1: The PilotEpisode 2: SmileEpisode 3: Thin IceEpisode 4: Knock KnockEpisode 5: OxygenEpisode 6: ExtremisEpisode 7: The Pyramid at the End of the WorldEpisode 8: The Lie of the LandEpisode 9: Empress of MarsEpisode 10: The Eaters of LightEpisode 11: World Enough and TimeEpisode 12: The Doctor Falls2017 Christmas special: Twice Upon A Time Series 9 Episode 1: The Magician's ApprenticeEpisode 2: The Witch's FamiliarEpisode 3: Under The LakeEpisode 4: Before The FloodEpisode 5: The Girl Who DiedEpisode 6: The Woman Who LivedEpisode 7: The Zygon InvasionEpisode 8: The Zygon InversionEpisode 9: Sleep No MoreEpisode 10: Face The RavenEpisode 11: Heaven SentEpisode 12: Hell Bent2015 Christmas special: The Husbands of River Song2016 Christmas special: The Return of Doctor Mysterio Series 8 Episode 1: Deep BreathEpisode 2: Into The DalekEpisode 3: Robot of SherwoodEpisode 4: ListenEpisode 5: Time HeistEpisode 6: The CaretakerEpisode 7: Kill The MoonEpisode 8: Mummy on the Orient ExpressEpisode 9: FlatlineEpisode 10: In the Forest of the NightEpisode 11: Dark WaterEpisode 12: Death In Heaven2014 Christmas special: Last Christmas Series 7 Episode 1: Asylum of the DaleksEpisode 2: Dinosaurs on a SpaceshipEpisode 3: A Town Called MercyEpisode 4: The Power of ThreeEpisode 5: The Angels Take Manhatten2012 Christmas special: The SnowmenEpisode 6: The Bells of Saint JohnEpisode 7: The Rings of AkhatenEpisode 8: Cold WarEpisode 9: HideEpisode 10: Journey to the Centre of the TardisEpisode 11: The Crimson HorrorEpisode 12: Nightmare in SilverEpisode 13: The Name of the Doctor50th Anniversary special: The Day of the Doctor2013 Christmas special: The Time of the Doctor Series 6 Episode 1: The Impossible AstronautEpisode 2: Day of the MoonEpisode 3: The Curse of the Black SpotEpisode 4: The Doctor's WifeEpisode 5: The Rebel FleshEpisode 6: The Almost PeopleEpisode 7: A Good Man Goes To WarEpisode 8: Let's Kill HitlerEpisode 9: Night TerrorsEpisode 10: The Girl Who WaitedEpisode 11: The God ComplexEpisode 12: Closing TimeEpisode 13: The Wedding of River Song2011 Christmas special: The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Series 5 Episode 1: The Eleventh HourEpisode 2: The Beast BelowEpisode 3: Victory of the DaleksEpisode 4: The Time of AngelsEpisode 5: Flesh and StoneEpisode 6: The Vampires of VeniceEpisode 7: Amy's ChoiceEpisode 8: The Hungry EarthEpisode 9: Cold BloodEpisode 10: Vincent and the DoctorEpisode 11: The LodgerEpisode 12: The Pandorica OpensEpisode 13: The Big Bang2010 Christmas special: A Christmas Carol
