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Italian firefighters and other emergency services evacuate residents fom the town of Senigallia after at least seven people died when violent storms in the centre of the country flooded roads and homes. The Corriere della Sera newspaper said about 400 millimetres (16 inches) of rain fell in two hours -- about the quantity normally recorded in six months in this zone. IMAGES
People gather at the site of a massive explosion at a firecracker factory in northern India which left at least 18 dead and up to 16 injured. IMAGES
Police in North Carolina had their hands full dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, which brought heavy rains and major floods to the coastal state. Many civilians became stuck in the torrential flooding and police were called to hundreds of emergency situations. Three unlucky people were caught in the flooding while driving in their car and had to climb up onto the roof and wait for emergency responders to save them in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Two men and a woman waited on top of a Ford SUV, after nearly 15 inches of rain fell during Hurricane Matthew's landfall. At around 7.30 pm local time, a rescue team helped the trio off the car and into safety on a boat. Since its arrival in the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew has caused mass damage in Haiti, killing at least 877, destroying some 80 percent of homes in the country's Sud department. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs at least 350,000 people on the island are in need of assistance. The US National Hurricane Centre have downgraded the initially Category Four hurricane to a Category One after wind speeds decreased below 75 miles per hour.
In Vantaa, north of the Finnish capital Helsinki, people pay their respects outside the school where a 12-year-old child opened fire the previous day, killing one classmate and seriously injuring two others, before being arrested. IMAGES
Crowds of people gather outside the scene of a deadly fire which blazed through a seven-storey building in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, leaving at least 44 people dead. IMAGES
A rescue helicopter transports people injured in a vehicle crash that killed five Argentine tourists and a local driver in Mexico's Riviera Maya tourist area in southeastern Quintana Roo state. The head-on collision occurred in the early afternoon of February 18 between Tulum and Puerto Aventuras along a popular stretch of coastline on the Yucatan Peninsula. IMAGES
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