In case you’re living under a rock, you’d know how terrible the year 2020 has been and how countless people lives were taken. Here's a list of 10 worst things that happened in the year 2020 and it's painful to read.
The Most Devastating Things That Happened In 2020
By
Zainab Pervez in
Heartbreaking
On 9th December 2020
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The Coronavirus Pandemic
The novel coronavirus, which causes a respiratory disease now known as COVID-19, has taken lives of about 1,554,211 people according to worldometer.info. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two.
Bushfire In Australia
Record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought fuelled a series of massive bushfires across Australia. Australia faced a devastating start to its fire season in late 2019, and it is estimated that the 2019–2020 bushfires led to the deaths of at least 33 people and over 3 billion animals.
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Death Of Kobe Bryant
Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant died Jan. 26 at age 41. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
Ukrainian Flight Crash
A Ukrainian flight crashed in Tehran, Iran, killing all 176 passengers on board. Shortly after Iran launched an attack on US troops stationed at Iraqi military bases, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed in Tehran, Iran, on January 8, killing all 176 people on board.
Taal Volcano Eruption
A volcano south of the Philippine capital has sent a massive plume of ash and steam spewing miles into the sky and pushed red-hot lava out of its crater. It said nearly 25,000 people had been displaced by the eruption.
PIA Plane Crash
PIA flight PK-8303 suffered a tragic air crash in Karachi in May 2020, killing 97 people on board while two passengers survived miraculously. During the ill-fated flight, the pilots made a first landing attempt, and the plane briefly touched the ground multiple times, before attempting to land for a second time.
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Beirut Explosion
On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, exploded, causing at least 204 deaths, 6,500 injuries. At least 150 people became permanently disabled as a result of the explosion.
Communal riots in Delhi
The 2020 Delhi riots included multiple waves of bloodshed, property destruction, and rioting that killed 53 people, most of whom were Muslims who were shot, slashed with repeated blows, or set on fire by Hindu mobs in North East Delhi beginning on the night of February 23. The events were the result of fallout from the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the dangerous rhetoric employed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in Delhi’s city elections and the mob incitement by a BJP leader to violently remove a group of Muslims who were blocking a road in the capital’s north-west to protest against the legislation.
Earthquakes in Turkey and the Caribbean
A total of 41 people were killed and more than 1,600 were injured in eastern Turkey after an earthquake rattled the region on January 24. The 6.7 magnitude quake struck near the town of Sivrice, in eastern Elazig province, causing at least 10 buildings to collapse.
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Death Of George Floyd
George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African American man killed during an arrest after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. A white police officer named Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for a period initially reported to be 8 minutes and 46 seconds. After his death, protests against police brutality, especially toward black people, quickly spread across the United States and internationally. Black Lives Matter (BLM), an international social movement, formed in the United States in 2013 returned to national headlines and gained further international attention during the global George Floyd protests in 2020.
