
This may seem like a normal photograph. It’s not normal once you see the context.
The photo was taken in 1998, in Omagh. The red car is fitted with a large bomb, that exploded seconds after this photo was taken. The photographer and most of the people you see in the photo were killed. Miraculously, the man and the child survived. 29 people were killed in the Omagh bombing, including six children and a mother pregnant with twins.

The photo shows Malaysia Airlines MH-17 taking off from Amsterdam Airport to Kuala Lumpur. The journey was supposed to be a 12—hour flight. 3 hours after this photo was taken, it was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board including 80 children.

Aftermath of the Brussels airport bombing, March 22, 2016. What is even more horrifying is how the victims were affected. They are bloodied. Horror, despair, helplessness are painted on their face.


The last image of the Concorde flight Air France 4590. One of the aircraft’s engines caught fire while it took off. All 100 passengers and 9 crew were killed when the plane crashed into a hotel.

Challenger astronauts prepare to board the space shuttle that will take them to space in January 1986. Instead, they were launched to heaven when it exploded 73 seconds after the launch.
Flight 175 a split-second before striking the South Tower in the September 11 attacks.

You might think the photo above is taken in a war-torn country. It is not. The photo shows smoke rising after a truck filled with bombs exploded in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004. It was a suicide terrorist attack. 11 people were killed and hundreds more were injured. It still sends chills to my spine seeing this.
Rioters looting stuff from Chinese-owned shops in 1998. The riots were a turning point for Indonesia, ending Suharto’s rule of 32 years and ushering a more democratic and free rule. But at what price?
Store owner surveying the damage done by the riots. (Related to the above picture). I still feel sad looking at the riots of 1998.
All these photos are not mine and are taken
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