2026 Toledo train collision
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2026 Uttarakhand helicopter crash
Six people are killed when their helicopter crashes near Joshimath, Uttarakhand, India.
2026 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
At least three people are killed as Cyclone Arnab makes landfall in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2026–2027 El Niño event
Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz declares a national state of emergency to mobilize resources before the super El Niño event peaks in November or December.
Human trafficking in the Netherlands
The Dutch military police and coast guard rescue 38 people from a rubber boat adrift off the coast of Breskens, Zeeland, and detain two people on suspicion of people smuggling.
2026 Brčko helicopter crash
Four people are killed and eleven more are injured after an Italian Air Force Boeing CH-47 Chinook crashes near Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2026 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Indian authorities order nearly 100,000 people to evacuate parts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha as Cyclone Arnab approaches, with the India Meteorological Department forecasting landfall as a very severe cyclonic storm.
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2026–27 European windstorm season
Two people are killed and around 90,000 more are left without electricity after the impact of Storm Boelo in Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland, and northern England.
Disasters
Five children and two adults are killed, five other people are injured, and four are missing after flash floods caused by heavy rainfall in eastern Syria.
Disasters
A bus transporting local tourists overturns in Sarapiquí, Costa Rica, killing three people and injuring 39 others, including seven seriously.
Also this week
- Nine people are killed after a Learjet 60 business jet bound for The Bahamas crashes in Greenacres, Florida, United States.Nov 1
- Four workers are killed after entering a food waste tank at a hotel in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India.Nov 1
- Three people are killed and five more injured during the collapse of a hoodoo at Göreme's Open Air Museum in the Nevşehir District, Turkey. It is suspected to be caused by heavy rainfall over the preceding days.Oct 29
- An oxygen cylinder explodes inside an ambulance parked at a medical facility in Tharparkar, Sindh Province, Pakistan, killing ten people.Oct 29
- Four people are killed, two are missing and several homes are destroyed during floods in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.Oct 27
- A construction site is hit by a tornado in Kepez, Antalya, Turkey, killing four workers and injuring another.Oct 27