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single-engine Federal Police plane crashed at Pampulha Airport, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Wednesday afternoon (6). Two people died, and one was injured.
The victims are federal police officers G.d.A.I. and J.M.N., from Brasília. A mechanic from an outsourced company, suffering from abdominal trauma, was rescued whilst cautious and rushed to hospital.
According to the Fire Department, the plane took off and lost altitude moments later, falling to the side of the runway at 2:14 pm. The vehicle caught fire after the crash. There is no official information on what caused the crash.
The aircraft is a Cessna 208B, manufactured in 2001, with 11 seats and capacity for nine passengers. In 2019 and 2020, there were reports of incidents relating to tire bursts involving the single-engine vehicle.
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My Original edit
Colorized raw footage (normal playback speed)
Photograph of Thich Quang Duc taken by Malcolm Browne
Thich Quang Duc was born in 1897 in Hoi Khanh, a village located in central Vietnam, Khanh Hoa province. Fragmentary information on his life is known only from Buddhist literature. Coming from a large family, he had six siblings. He was born as Lam Van Tuc (Lâm Văn Tức in Vietnamese). He entered a Mahayana Buddhist monastery when he was seven. He became a monk at the age of twenty under the name Thich Quang Duc. In 1932, he was appointed an inspector and was over time responsible for the building of 14 temples. In 1934, he moved to southern Vietnam and became a teacher. He also spent two years in Cambodia. After that, he began to oversee the construction of further temples. In total, he was responsible for 31 new temples. In 1943, he moved to Saigon where he worked as the chairman of a panel on ceremonial rites. In the following years, he became one of the leading spiritual figures of Vietnamese Buddhism.
Thick Quang Duc being doused in gasoline by another monk
In the beginning of the 1960s, religious tension in South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) had escalated. A predominantly Buddhist country was ruled by the authoritative and Christian president Ngo Dinh Diem (Ngô Đình Diệm in Vietnamese). Rampant corruption, favouring Roman Catholics for public service, and disregard of the president for Buddhist traditions had sparked street clashes in Saigon, leaving nine protesters dead after the violent crackdown in May 1963. The Buddhist reaction took the form of a shocking protest that built on an older tradition, cases of self-immolation having been previously recorded in Vietnam and also in China. On 10 June 1963, American journalists in Saigon were notified that something unspecified would happen in front of the Embassy of Cambodia the next day. The Buddhists probably chose the place because of the then tense relations between Cambodia and South Vietnam. Since the Buddhists had been protesting against the ruling regime for a long time already, only several journalists arrived, including The New York Times correspondent David Halberstam and the Associated Press photographer Malcolm W. Browne.
Thic Quang Duc Self-immolation
According to Halberstam, several hundred Buddhist monks, who left the main Saigon pagoda around 10 a.m. on 11 June 1963, marched into the busy junction. A blue Austin Westminster sedan led the March. At the junction, Thich Quang Duc got out of the car accompanied by two monks. One of them laid a cushion on the street and Duc sat down on it in the lotus position. The other took a five-gallon petrol can out of the boot and poured the petrol over Duc. Duc then recited a short mantra used by Buddhists to calm their mind. Then he struck a match and set himself on fire. He burst into flames immediately. The on-looking crowd chanted slogans, some cried, some bowed to the burning monk. After ten minutes, the lifeless body fell to the ground. When the flames went out, one of the monks repeated into a microphone again and again, first in Vietnamese and then in English: “A Buddhist priest burns himself to death. A Buddhist priest becomes a martyr.” The monks carried Duc's remains away to bury them. According to tradition, the heart remained intact after the cremation and was venerated as a relic. Also because of this, Duc has been revered by Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhists as bodhisattva, someone who has achieved enlightenment (many other Buddhists reject his act as incompatible with the teachings of Buddha).
Malcolm Browne's photograph in color
Duc stressed in a farewell letter that he decided to immolate himself in order to press President Diem to establish religious tolerance. He wrote that self-immolation is a sacrifice for Buddhism. The regime leadership proclaimed that the event was a conspiracy of Cambodia and local communists. At the end of June 1963, the government announced that Duc had been drugged before his self-immolation. The First Lady also provoked outrage when she cynically wrote in a letter to The New York Times that she “would clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show.” Religious tension did not defuse in the following weeks, and three more monks immolated themselves in August 1963. Eventually, president Diem, who gradually lost the support of the United States, was overthrown and killed on 2 November 1963.
Duc's protest drew a strong response not only in South Vietnam but also in other countries, thanks to the American journalists. A picture of the burning monk taken by Brown won the 1963 World Press Photo of the Year award, and Brown himself won a Pulitzer prize in 1964. Self-immolation in South Vietnam, interpreted as a part of the struggle against American imperialism, was often covered by the official media in communist countries. Paradoxically, this form of political protest became an inspiration for a number of people in the Soviet bloc. At present, there is a street named after Duc in the Vietnamese capital of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). A monumental memorial has been erected not far from the place where he performed his radical protest
Sources:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/thich-quang-duc-burning-monk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
https://time.com/3791176/malcolm-browne-the-story-behind-the-burning-monk/
https://www.cfr.org/blog/twe-remembers-thich-quang-ducs-self-immolation
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk6e05
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations
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In India, a pregnant woman along with her husband were burned to death due to car engine failure.
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This case took place on may 12 2015 and shows the dramatic moment of a teenager just 16 years old who was brutality lynched and burned alive by a mad mob in rio bravo a guatemalan municipality in the department suchitepequez teenagercaptured wen she tried to escape her crime after having killed carlos enrique González noriega 68 - years old taxi driver who made a living from his humble automobile and apparently he was being extorted by gang which girl was part of it acording to local press information one of the know and feared criminals in the area was the girls father who was in prison for several crimes from inside prison he had ordered his daughter and two other hechmen to collect a debt with the taxi drive information atrocidade 18
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Woman gets trapped in mangled burning car after collision. There's also bodies of dead and wounded laying around.
Four People Were Burned Alive In Burning Car
Three cars collided on the Tyumen-Khanty-Mansiysk highway. As a result of the accident, the Chevrolet, in which the family was located, began to burn. Eyewitnesses heard their cries, but could not help the poor fellows.
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