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On This Day, April 24

  • 2025: A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.
  • 2013: A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.
  • 2013: Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
  • 2011: WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
  • 2006: Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80.

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