Gruesome Deaths and Attacks #2

 Just some macabre news stories I've come across over the past couple of months: 

• "Hunter becomes the hunted: Shocking moment wounded elk turns the tables and charges huntsman, stomping him to the ground as his terrified friends watch on"--Daily Mail. This was in Russia. No information on how badly injured was the hunter.
• From last November: "Mother is torn apart by pack of wild dogs on her walk to work after making desperate last phone call begging for help"--Daily Mail.  This incident occurred in the Russian city of Kazan. She was mauled to death by the dogs. She was not found until several hours after the attack.
• Also from this past November: "Horrifying moment gang of four masked gunmen shoot dead 10 people in bloody bar room massacre before fleeing in a pick-up truck and setting it alight"--Daily Mail.  This incident occurred in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. 
• From December: "180 Dead: Haitian Warlord Orders Massacre Of Elderly For Using 'Sorcery' To Sicken Son"--Zero Hedge. The lede pretty much sums it up: "Yet another gruesome gang horror has played out in Haiti, as at least 184 people -- most of them elderly -- were variously slashed, hacked or shot to death on the orders of a warlord who'd been advised that aging slum residents had used sorcery to give his son a severe illness."

Members of the gang surrounded the neighborhood, then proceeded to search the shacks for people over 60 years old, who were then hacked with machetes, slashed with knives and shot with guns. The victims included some younger people who tried to defend the gang's elderly targets. Bodies were dragged into the streets where they were mutilated and torched, filling the neighborhood with a foul stench of death. Felix's ailing son died as the massacre was being carried out.  

• Moving into January of this year: "Papua New Guinea is rocked by 'horrific acts of cannibalism' as bow and arrow-wielding gang poses with body parts vowing to 'cook and eat it'"--Daily Mail. Yet we are told that it was only guns, germs, and steel that allowed Europeans to be more advanced than the inhabitants of New Guinea:

    In grisly photos published Monday on the front page of the nation's largest newspaper, the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, a group of machete-wielding men dangle what appears to be a severed human foot.

    Although the men are not filmed eating the body part, one of them appears to make a licking gesture while holding it up for the camera, while others around him smile and point to the chopped-off limb.

•  Another case of "domesticated" not equating to "harmless": "Ohio woman, 75, 'killed and eaten by neighbor's pigs on Christmas Day'"--Daily Mail.

    An elderly Ohio woman was mauled to death and partially eaten by her neighbor's ravenous pigs near her home on Christmas Day.

    Rebecca Westergaard Rigney, 75, was found dead with injuries to her leg on the front steps of her home on Mink Street in Pataskala.

    The senior lady's niece raised the alarm of her disappearance after Rigney failed to show up at her home in Norton, Ohio for celebrations. 

• "Dog-lover is eaten by her pet pugs after dying in her apartment and lying undiscovered for days"--Daily Mail. Sounds like her dogs really loved her.

    Adriana Neagoe, 34, had not been heard from for five days before police made the harrowing discovery at her home near Bucharest, Romania.

    Officers arrived at the flat in Târgu Jiu with a relative to find Adriana, who went by Anda Sasha, lifeless with her two pugs beside her.

    They said that it was clear the unfed dogs had already begun to eat at her corpse.

• Some like it hot: "Vesuvius’ Scorching Eruption Turned a Man’s Brain Into Glass"--Smithsonian Magazine (via Get Pocket).

    When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., hundreds of people in the nearby town of Herculaneum fled to waterfront chambers in hopes of seeking shelter from the catastrophic explosion—a desperate plan that failed to save them from meeting gruesome ends. Among the few who stayed in the town was a roughly 25-year-old man whose ash-covered remains were discovered in a wooden bed during the 1960s.

    Now, a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests a shiny black fragment found within the victim’s skull represents remnants of the man’s brain, which was subjected to such searing heat that it turned into glass.

•  "At least 86 killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker explodes"--France 24.

At least 86 people were killed in central Nigeria on Saturday when a fuel tanker that had overturned burst into flames, burning those who had rushed to collect the gasoline. The price of gasoline has increased fivefold in 18 months, leading many to risk their lives to recover fuel during tanker truck accidents which authorities say are common in Nigeria.

The article also notes that "In October, more than 170 people died in a similar accident in Jigawa State, in northern Nigeria."

• "Hundreds of women are raped then burned alive after rebel group breaks into prison and forces its way into female ward"--Daily Mail. 

    Hundreds of women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels stormed into the Congolese city of Goma, it has emerged.

    The atrocity took place during a mass jail break from the Munzenze jail last week, as M23 fighters clashed with the Congolese army during deadly gun battles.

    According to the UN, female inmates were butchered in their wing in the notoriously overcrowded prison after men forced their way in and went on a rampage. 

• More: "Rwanda-backed rebels flout ceasefire by rampaging through Congo as death toll nears 3,000 including scores of female prisoners who were raped and burned alive with their children - with international arrest warrant issued against leader"--Daily Mail. 
• More: "Horrifying video shows charred bodies inside female prison block where hundreds of women were raped before being burnt alive"--Daily Mail.  

• "A Frozen Graveyard: The Sad Tales of Antarctica’s Deaths"--BBC Future (via Get Pocket). The article begins:

    In the bleak, almost pristine land at the edge of the world, there are the frozen remains of human bodies – and each one tells a story of humanity’s relationship with this inhospitable continent.

    Even with all our technology and knowledge of the dangers of Antarctica, it can remain deadly for anyone who goes there. Inland, temperatures can plummet to nearly -90C (-130F). In some places, winds can reach 200mph (322km/h). And the weather is not the only risk.

    Many bodies of scientists and explorers who perished in this harsh place are beyond reach of retrieval. Some are discovered decades or more than a century later. But many that were lost will never be found, buried so deep in ice sheets or crevasses that they will never emerge – or they are headed out towards the sea within creeping glaciers and calving ice.

    The stories behind these deaths range from unsolved mysteries to freak accidents. ...