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Operation Vanguard is a military police joint task force (JTF) set up by the President of Ghana in 2017 to combat illegal mining, known as galamsey.Over the years, the practice has depleted Ghana's forest cover and polluted bodies of water due to the crude and unregulated nature of the mining process.
Galamsey refers to illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana. [1] The term is derived from the English phrase "gather them and sell". [ 2 ] Historically, galamsey referred to traditional small-scale mining practices in Ghana, where local communities would gather and search for gold in rivers and streams.
Langenweddingen rail crash July 6 – East Germany – Langenweddingen level crossing disaster, Langenweddingen near Magdeburg: Because of an overstretched cable preventing the proper operation of a level crossing's barriers, a local train collided with a lorry carrying 15,000 litres of light petrol and ignited. Ninety-four people were killed ...
A broken rail under the lead baggage car caused it to come off the tracks. The train safely crossed the bridge over the Hurricane River, but at about 9:30 a.m. the baggage car suddenly whirled over and struck the subsequent trestle, causing its collapse.
May 8 - United Kingdom - Chester General rail crash: A freight train collided with empty coaching stock stopped at Chester, as a result of a brake failure. The resulting fire caused significant damage to the station. June 3 – Poland – Ślesin, (near Bydgoszcz): A train Kolobrzeg–Warsaw derailed on fatigue rail , killing 12 people and ...
Manx Electric Railway trams 3, 4, 8 and 24, plus trailers 34, 35, 38–41 and 44 were destroyed. Trailer 60 was damaged. [36]: p13 On 30 March 2016, Snaefell Mountain Railway car No. 3 ran away from Snaefell Summit with nobody on board. The tram derailed before reaching Bungalow station and was destroyed. [37] [38]
It would remain the worst train crash in New South Wales history for just under 51 years until the Granville rail disaster of 1977 which left 84 people dead in Australia's worst rail disaster. September 23 – Japan – A Tokyo- Shimonoseki limited express derails at Hataga river bridge in eastern Hiroshima , in an incident caused by heavy rain ...
Bridges have been a strategic and tactical aspect of the Russo-Ukrainian War, particularly since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.As there are more than 23,000 rivers [1] and over 28,000 bridges in Ukraine, [2] several important events, including battles, blocked advances, political disputes, and the successes and failures of army units, have centered around the country’s bridges.