All tag results for 'tragedy'

Ugh. We don't even know what to say about this.

Filmmaker Jonathan Bucari is making a movie using the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as a backdrop- and he's filming it on the outskirts of Newtown!

We understand that school shootings are fresh on everyone's mind, and that someone might be inspired to tell a personal story.

But you know whose mind it's still super fresh on? And raw? And tender? The people of Newtown. Rudy Marconi, First Selectman of neighboring Ridgefield, says:

Tags: film, movie, newtown connecticut, sandy hook elementary, shooting, tragedy

Two California high school students ended up in the hospital after what was supposed to be a friendly game of Tug of War!

Spirit Week turned tragic when somehow the South El Monte High School event caused the students to lose their spirit fingers!

Surgeons tried to reattach the severed body parts to the unfortunate young athletes.

Ch-ch-check out the video AFTER THE JUMP for the rest of the grisly story- if you dare!

Tags: fingers, high school, loss, students, tragedy, tug of war, violence

This is just so sad.

As the world mourns for 231 poor souls killed in Brazil on Sunday, local police just arrested four suspects in connection with the deadly fire.

Two nightclub owners, a member of Gurizada Fandangueira, and the band's security chief are all now in custody.

As mass burials begin today, survivors

Tags: arrested, brazil, catastrophe, fire, gurizada fandangueira, kiss nightclub, nightclub, rip, sad sad, santa maria, tragedy

We cannot even begin to express our heartache over this.

The Brazilian city of Santa Maria was home to an unspeakable tragedy last night, when a fire broke out in the Boate Kiss nightclub around 2:00 in the morning and took the lives of at least 245 people, many of whom were college students.

According to reports, the blaze is thought to be related to a pyrotechnics show going on at the time, as the acoustic insulation inside of the building caught first. The majority of people who lost their lives either died from smoke inhalation or were trampled to death trying to escape, as the club is known to hold up to 3,000 people on the weekends and there were no visible exit signs.

The President of Brazil, Dilma Roussef, has left a summit she was attending in Chile to be with the people of Santa Maria, and says in a statement:

Tags: brazil, chile, college students, college town, death, dilma roussef, nightclub, president, pyrotechnics, r.i.p., santa maria, stay strong, tragedy

Whoa! This is amazing!

When an off-duty police officer sees a woman fall off the subway platform just moments before the train comes, he does what no one else will!

Ch-ch-check out the video (above) to see the real-life Dudley Do Right saving a woman from the train tracks!

We wonder if police in Spain have to train for this sort of thing! Maybe he's just a rail hero!

Tags: accident, cop, fall, hero, risks life, spain, subway, tragedy, train, video, woman

When people talk about big, violent action movies, the first name they usually think of is Arnold Schwarzenegger.

So does the Terminator star think that his many acts of onscreen violence have inspired any real-life gun violence?

No way! He doesn't think there's any connection at all. He says:

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Katie Couric lost her husband to cancer in 1998. Then, less than three years later, her sister also succumbed to the disease.

Now the Today host is finally ready to talk about her losses.

All the tragedies in such a short span drew comparisons to another famous family. Katie says:

Tags: cancer, charity, death, husband, katie couric, loses, sister, tragedy