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List of accidents and disasters by death toll From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia See also: Energy accidents and List of natural disasters by death toll This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll&action=edit) with reliably sourced entries. This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents. This list does not include deaths by natural disasters, war, or violent acts. Contents 1 Aviation 2 Explosions 3 Industrial disasters 4 Maritime 5 Nuclear and radiation accidents 6 Road 7 Smog 8 Space exploration 9 Sporting events 10 Stampedes and panics 11 Structural collapses 12 Structural fires 13 Rail accidents and disasters 14 See also 15 Notes 16 References Aviation Main article: List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities Deaths Incident Location Date Pan Am Flight 1736 27 March 583 and Tenerife, Spain 1977 KLM Flight 4805 Japan Airlines Flight 12 August 520 Ueno, Japan 123 1985 Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and 12 November 349 Charkhi Dadri, India Kazakhstan Airlines 1996 Flight 1907 Turkish Airlines Flight 3 March 346 Fontaine-Chaalis, France 981 1974 329 Air India Flight 182 Atlantic Ocean 23 June 1985 19 August 301 Saudia Flight 163 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1980 Malaysia Airlines near Hrabove, Donetsk 298 17 July 2014 Flight 17 Oblast, Ukraine Strait of Hormuz, off Shib 290 Iran Air Flight 655 3 July 1988 Deraz, Iran Iranian military Il-76 19 February 275 near Kerman, Iran Accident 2003 American Airlines 273 Des Plaines, United States 25 May 1979 Flight 191 Lockerbie, Scotland, United 21 December 270 Pan Am Flight 103 Kingdom 1988 Korean Air Lines 1 September 269 Sea of Japan Flight 007 1983 American Airlines 12 November 265 Queens, United States Flight 587 2001 China Airlines Flight 264 Komaki, Japan 26 April 1994 140 Nigeria Airways Flight 261 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 11 July 1991 2120 Air New Zealand 28 November 257 Antarctica Flight 901 1979 Gander, Newfoundland, 12 December 256 Arrow Air Flight 1285 Canada 1985 Explosions This list does not include bombings, aviation incidents, or mining disasters Deaths Date Incident Boiler and ammunition explosion aboard an November unidentified merchant ship evacuating troops of the 6,000 1948 Republic of China Army from Yingkou, China for Taiwan in early November 1948[1] A lightning bolt caused the explosion of a gunpowder 18 August 3,000 depot in Brescia (Italy), destroying one-sixth of the 1769 city[2][3] 6 1,950 December Halifax Explosion in Nova Scotia, Canada[4] 1917 8 June Ammunition plant with facilities explode at 1,500 1941 Smederevo, outskirt of Belgrade, Serbia 16 Explosion of ammunition on the Chinese troopship 1,200 October [5] 1926 Kuang Yuang, near Kiukiang, China 7 August Ammunition trucks explode near a railway station in 1,200 1956 Cali, Colombia 1 Japanese battleship Mutsu, at Hashirajima harbor, 1,121 September 1943 due to magazine explosion 1943 Lagos Armoury Explosion, in Lagos, Nigeria; many 27 January 1,100 deaths were from drowning during the resulting 2002 panic 18 Ammunition transporter explosion in Hamont, 1,007 November Belgium 1918 31 August 1,000+ Explosion of a gunpowder factory in Grenelle, France 1794 Propellant explosion of the British dreadnought 843 9 July 1917 battleship HMS Vanguard 14 April 800 Bombay Docks Explosion in Bombay, India 1944 26 British pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Bulwark 738 November destroyed due to a magazine explosion 1914 17 August Iraqi military plant with facilities explode at Al Hillah, 700 1988 Babil, Iraq 27 621 February Explosion of a dynamite depot in Brazil[6] 1925 28 March Explosion of the Caterina Costa, at port of Naples; 600+ 1943 over 3000 were also injured 3 Explosion of the Cabo Machichaco, at the port of 590 November Santander, Cantabria, Spain, with over 2000 injured 1893 [7] 4 June 575 Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union 1989 16 April 568+ Texas City disaster 1947 21 Oppau explosion at a BASF plant in Germany; 565 September possibly as many as 1,500 were killed 1921 19 500+ November San Juanico Disaster, in Mexico City, Mexico 1984 11 Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood exploded at 372 December Seeadler Harbor, killing 372 and injuring 371 1944 11 Japanese battleship Mikasa explosion of magazine 339 September (artillery) while at port 1905 17 July Port Chicago disaster at Port Chicago, California, 322 1944 United States 25 around An explosion occurred on the French battleship September 300 Liberté 1911 18 March New London School explosion at New London, Texas, 296+ 1937 United States 4 March Brazzaville arms dump blasts at Brazzaville, Republic 246+ 2012 of the Congo 27 January A fire in a nightclub tragically kills more than 240 240+ 2013 people in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 23 PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field 234 December explosion, Guoqiao, Chongqing, China 2003 20 Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya magazine 233 October explosion 1916 South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic 230+ 2 July 2010 Republic of the Congo 18 July 226+ Gunpowder explosion near Valletta, Malta 1806 11 July Los Alfaques disaster, in Sant Carles de la Ràpita, 217 1978 Spain 28 July Tank car explosion at BASF, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 207 1948 Germany; 3,818 were also injured[8] 22 April 206 Gas explosions in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 1992 6 June Gotera ammunition dump explosion in Addis Ababa, 200+ 1991 Ethiopia 2 Gas explosion in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist 200 December Republic 1984 1 May Scofield Mine disaster in Scofield, Utah, United 200 1900 States, caused by a dust explosion 27 Mina Rosita Vieja disaster, San Juan de Sabinas, 200 February Coahuila, Mexico 1908 26 August Tuzla, Dobrnja-Jug mine disaster, Bosnia and 180 1990 Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia 177 1941 Mitsubishi Bibai, Bibai, Hokkaidō, Japan 15 A trailer truck carrying dynamite exploded after a 171 February crash at Thung Maphrao, Phang Nga, Thailand 1991 28 166 November Chenjiashan, Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China 2004 West Loch Disaster, where the tank landing ship 21 May 163 LST-353 exploded at West Loch, Hawaii, United 1944 States while handling ammunition 20 April 160 Vågen explosion in Norway 1944 26 159 September Muchonggou, Shuicheng, Guizhou, China 2000 22 April 154 Ryongchon disaster in North Korea 2004 Tacoa Disaster (Tacoa Power Plant, Arrecife, 153 1982 Venezuela) 151 1807 Gunpowdership disaster in Leiden, the Netherlands 151 9 July 1930 Hausdorf, Germany (currently Jugów, Poland) 2 150 November Gunpowder explosion in Abbeville, France 1773 28 March Jaʿār munitions factory explosion in Abyan 150 2011 Governorate, Yemen[9] 18 August Spanish Naval torpedo and landmine factory 147 1947 exploded at Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain 2 August 2014 Kunshan explosion, a dust explosion in 146 2014 Kunshan, Jiangsu, China 31 January 140 Sachangwan Molo tanker explosion in Kenya 2009 Chilwell Munitions factory explosion in Nottingham, 134 1 July 1918 England 133 1917 Munitions plant in Pennsylvania, United States 20 Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion in Cleveland, Ohio, 130 October United States 1944 11 March 126 Dublin Gunpowder Disaster in Dublin, Ireland 1597 12 July 121 Road tanker explosion in Okobie, Nigeria 2012 12 March 118 Explosion on the French battleship Iéna 1907 22 March 2007 Maputo arms depot explosion at Mozambican 117 2007 Armed Forces ammunition in Laulane, Mozambique. 3 June Electrical transformer explosion in Dhaka, 117 2010 Bangladesh 116 1916 Munitions factory, Faversham, Kent, England 12 March A tanker truck carrying petrol exploded at Chennai, 110 1995 India 24 24 houses of liquefied petroleum gas exploded at 105 November Danaciobasi, Kırıkkale, Turkey 1980 26 May USS Bennington, off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, 103 1954 Catapult_Explosion 28 April Gas explosions by subway construction in Daegu, 103 1995 South Korea 12 100 October Delft Explosion in the Netherlands 1654 12 100 February Gunpowder explosion in Limerick, Ireland 1693 21 June 100 Gunpowder explosion in Wrocław, Poland 1749 100 1918 Chemical plant in Pittsburgh, United States 4 October T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion 100 1918 in Sayreville, New Jersey, United States.[10] 10 June Explosion of an ammunitions dump in Chuchow, 100 1930 China[11] 10 April Pakistani Army ammunition dump explodes at 100 1988 Islamabad, Pakistan 15 May NNPC oil pipeline explosion, which blasted a primary 100 2008 school at Ijegun, Nigeria 28 March A truck carrying 8,800 gallons of fuel exploded and 98 2007 caught fire at Kagarko, Kaduna, Nigeria 1 March Japanese Imperial Army ammunitions dump exploded 94 1939 at Hirakata, outskirt of Osaka, Japan 27 Temiya railroad station and Otaru harbor facilities 94 December destroyed by an exploding standing freight train 1924 carrying dynamite at Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan 24 Nedelin catastrophe, at a space center in Baikonur, 92 October Kazakhstan 1960 Explosion of a large store of dynamite in the 31 January 90 basement of a five-story apartment building in 1996 Shaoyang, Hunan, China A truck carrying 3,800 gallons of gasoline with six 20 June 90 vehicles crashed and exploded at Nosratabad, Sistan 2004 and Baluchistan, Iran 8 April Gas explosions by subway construction in Osaka, 79 1970 Japan 12 Greek tanker Spyros exploded at Jurong shipyard, 78 October Singapore 1978 27 Underground ammunition store explosion at Fauld, 75 November Staffordshire, England 1944 31 Propane explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds 74 October Coliseum during a Holiday on Ice show at the Indiana 1963 State Fair in Indianapolis, United States 19 January 73 Silvertown explosion in London, England 1917 4 June Arzamas train disaster, where a railroad station 73 1988 exploded in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia 18 August 70 Vergarolla explosion at Pula, Italy 1946 Shenzhen factory explosions in Shenzhen, China.