Bridge collapses in Turkey
A bridge is under a lot of snow in Turkey. The bridge goes down. People run to the bridge. They want to help people who went down with the bridge. It is in one town in central Turkey.
One high school student was taken to hospital. He had only small problems. He will be OK. Now people want to know why the bridge went down.
Interesting words: central (in the middle), high school (school for students who are between 14 and 18 years old).
Monkey in clothes was found in IKEA
Darwin is a monkey from IKEA. He is going to a new home now. His new home is at a zoo near Toronto. People found Darwin in the car park near an IKEA shop.
People were shocked. The animal had clothes. They filmed him and put the pictures on the internet. His pictures are an internet hit now.
Interesting words: IKEA (shop with furniture), be shocked (see something unusual).
Man with a gun killed two and himself
A man started to shoot in Portland. It was inside a busy shopping center. When the man started to shoot, many people ran fast. He killed two people. Then he killed himself.
Police came to the shopping center. People say that the man had a white mask. He ran around the shopping center and he was shooting at people. People don’t know how many people were injured.
Interesting words: shoot (try to kill somebody with a gun), be injured (have problems with your body when somebody hits you).
People died during a festival in India
Kumph Mela is the world’s biggest religious festival. It is usually a happy time. But on Sunday there was a tragedy at the festival. 30 people were killed.
Many people were on a small bridge near a railway station. The bridge wasn’t strong. Some part of the bridge went down. People were scared. They started to run. They started to walk on other people. Those people were killed.
This festival is only once every 12 years. The festival is in a small town. Millions of people from India come to this small town.
Interesting words: religious (connected with god), tragedy (bad moment), scared (full of fear).