June 12
2023
The Kwara Boat Disaster
On the night of June 12, 2023, an overcrowded wooden boat carrying more than 250 villagers across the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria, struck a submerged tree trunk and capsized. At least 106 people were confirmed dead—most of them women and children—in one of the country’s deadliest recent waterway disasters. The tragedy exposed deep-rooted problems in rural river transport and left its communities in mourning, with calls for reforms still unmet a year later. Read more
2016
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
On June 12, 2016, a mass shooting at Pulse, a popular LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, left 49 dead and more than 50 wounded. The tragedy, carried out by Omar Mateen who pledged allegiance to ISIS during the attack, became the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the time and profoundly impacted both local and national conversations about gun violence, terrorism, and hate crimes. Read more
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