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Hotel Wall Collapses During Wedding, Kills 15

People dancing at Peru wedding were caught underneath

(Newser) - A hotel wall collapsed during a wedding celebration in Peru, killing at least 15 people on Sunday, authorities said. National civil defense chief Jorge Chavez said dozens of people who had been dancing were caught under the collapsing wall and a roof early Sunday at the Alhambra hotel in the...

Couple Visiting San Diego Die in 'Freaky Accident'

A 75-foot pine fell on their rental home

(Newser) - A North Dakota couple died while vacationing in San Diego when a 75-foot-tall pine tree crashed onto their rental house as they slept, relatives and police say. Troy and Jessica Nelson ran a promotional products and apparel company, Trojan Promotions, in Grand Forks. They were spending the weekend at the...

Coroner's Report Sheds Light on Couple's Death Plunge

Meenakshi Moorthy and Vishnu Viswanath weren't entirely sober

(Newser) - The sad story of a couple who plummeted 800 feet to their deaths at Yosemite National Park in California is getting a little clearer, Fox News reports. Autopsy investigations by Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department show that Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, and her husband, Vishnu Viswanath, 29, had ethyl alcohol in...

Teen Dies in Fall From Cruise Ship
Teen Dies in Fall
From Cruise Ship
Jan 16, 2019 1:22 AM CST

Teen Dies in Fall From Cruise Ship

He tried to climb into room from balcony

(Newser) - A teenager from the South Pacific died after falling from a cruise ship onto a pier in Haiti, officials say. The Broward Medical Examiner's Office in Florida on Monday announced 16-year-old Laurent Mercer's death, the Sun Sentinel reports. He'd been on a seven-day Caribbean trip with his...

3 Young Children Die After Getting Trapped in Freezer

The children, ages 1, 4, and 6, couldn't get out after it closed

(Newser) - Authorities in Florida say three young children playing outside climbed into an unplugged chest freezer and died when they couldn't get out, the AP reports. The Suwannee County Sheriff's Office says the children, ages 1, 4, and 6, couldn't be revived when they were found Sunday at...

Man Dies During Game of Hide and Seek
Game of
Hide and Seek
Ends in Death
Jan 14, 2019 3:33 PM CST

Game of Hide and Seek Ends in Death

Police believe man fell down elevator shaft

(Newser) - A game of hide and seek turned fatal over the weekend when a 21-year-old man fell to his death. Detroit police say a group of friends was playing the game between midnight and 1:30am on Saturday morning in a vacant building, the Detroit Free Press reports. The man was...

Woman Dies After Getting Caught in Clothing 'Death Trap'

She's at least the 8th fatality in Canada in 4 years to become trapped in donation bin

(Newser) - A woman in Toronto died after she became stuck in a clothing donations bin, reports NBC News . Police don't suspect foul play. The unidentified woman, found early Tuesday morning, apparently reached in too far, either to put in or pull out clothes, and could not get back out. Her...

Man Charged After Toddler Shoots, Kills Sister

Darrell Marberry allegedly left a gun under a couch

(Newser) - A northwestern Indiana man has been charged with felony neglect after police say a 3-year-old boy fatally shot his 4-year-old sister with the suspect's gun, the AP reports. Sixty-three-year-old Darrell Marberry of East Chicago was arrested last week and is being held in the Lake County Jail pending extradition...

Police: Teen Accidentally Kills Friend, Then Takes Own Life

It happened Monday in Lawrenceville, Ga.

(Newser) - 2018 ended in tragedy for two teens in Lawrenceville, Ga. Police say that shortly after 3pm Monday, 15-year-old Devin Hodges was showing three other males a handgun. A shot was accidentally fired in what Gwinnett County police say was a "cramped shed." The bullet fatally struck Chad Carless,...

On Way to Thanksgiving Dinner, Family Dies in Car Crash

Their car went off the road as they traveled to see relatives for the holiday

(Newser) - "It's like a nightmare you don't wake up from." So says the mother of a North Dakota man who was killed along with his wife and their two daughters in a car crash Thanksgiving morning. Leslie Dean-Webb tells KTVB the family had moved from Caldwell, Idaho,...

They Were Driving to Their Wedding. Instead, Tragedy

Couple killed in crash en route to nuptials

(Newser) - Kathryn Schurtz and Joseph Kearney were on their way to their wedding when the unthinkable happened Wednesday. The New Jersey couple was driving to Pittsburgh for the nuptials when a crash occurred ahead of them on I-78 in Windsor Township, Pa. Traffic slowed, but a tractor-trailer behind the couple wasn'...

Grape-Harvesting Accident Claims Napa Worker's Life

Leon Marcelo Lua was 49

(Newser) - A grim work-related death out of California's Wine Country, where a Napa man working at Beaucanon Winery's Deconinck Vineyards got pulled into a grape harvesting machine with fatal results. KTVU identifies the victim as Leon Marcelo Lua, 49. The San Francisco Chronicle reports his clothing got caught in...

Rapper Dies When Plane Wing Stunt Goes Horribly Wrong

Jon James McMurray killed when plane goes into downward spiral

(Newser) - A Canadian rapper was attempting to perform a stunt on the wing of a plane when things went very wrong. Jon James McMurray, who recorded as Jon James, had been training "intensively" for months for the project, which involved him rapping while walking on the wing of a plane...

Medieval Re-Enactor Impaled in Freak Accident

Peter Barclay was speared by his own lance

(Newser) - The Society for Creative Anachronism is mourning equestrian marshal Peter Barclay—or, as they knew him, Master Terafan Greydragon. The 53-year-old Virginia resident was fatally injured by his own lance at an event in Williamstown, Kentucky, while competing in an equestrian game, NBC Washington reports. His brother, John Barclay, said...

Worker Crushed In Accident Goes Unnoticed for a Day

Authorities say there are no signs of foul play

(Newser) - State police say a handyman's accidental death at an upstate New York printing company went unnoticed for a least a day before his body was found pinned under a hydraulic loading dock, the AP reports. Troopers say William Sethmann, of Deposit, was working as an independent contractor at the...

Freak Accident Kills Man in Fast Food Drive-Thru

The 20-year-old was pinned against a tree

(Newser) - A Missouri man has died after an accident that happened as he reached for his food at a drive-thru window, per the AP . The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 20-year-old Charles Wood Jr. died Wednesday night at a Jack in the Box restaurant in St. Louis. Wood was from Velda City,...

Boy, 7, Dies in Fall From Subway Car
Boy, 7, Dies in Fall
From Subway Car
Sep 25, 2018 12:26 AM CDT

Boy, 7, Dies in Fall From Subway Car

Philadelphia boy was selling candy on train

(Newser) - Police say a 7-year-old boy who was selling candy on a Philadelphia train with his brother fell between two moving subway cars and died. Authorities say the boy was with his 11-year-old brother and a 26-year-old man on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's Broad Street Line subway in northern...

'Zombie Boy' Death May Not Have Been a Suicide

Family thinks Rick Genest leaned too far back on a balcony while smoking a cigarette

(Newser) - His death Wednesday was widely reported to be a suicide , including by Lady Gaga , whose music video "Born This Way" helped make his tattooed face famous. But the family and manager of model Rick Genest, aka "Zombie Boy," are telling everyone to pull back on the conclusion...

He Had Dry Ice in His Car for Work. It Likely Killed His Mom

Pierce County Sheriff’s Department describes it as 'horrific accident'

(Newser) - A Washington man's new car may have contributed to his mother's death in the oddest of ways. The News Tribune reports the 51-year-old Tacoma-area man woke at 4am Friday to get ready for work and discovered his wife hadn't returned from taking his 77-year-old mother home the...

Unsecured Boulder Causes Horrific Accident

It fell from dump truck, killed 2 women

(Newser) - Two women in Minnesota are dead and a contractor is facing two counts of vehicular homicide after a horrific accident, police say. Karen Christiansen, 67, and daughter Jena Christiansen, 32, were killed Monday when an unsecured 800-pound boulder tumbled from a southbound dump truck and smashed into their northbound Toyota...

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