April 8: Due to very low visibility in a sandstorm, 80 cars piled up in a mass crash on German Autobahn 19. 30 of these caught fire, resulting in the death of eight people and the injury of 131 others.
May 21: Two people have been killed and twenty others were seriously injured in a series of anti-government protests held in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
May 27: Riot police clashed with protesters as authorities cleared away a makeshift camp in Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona, set up as part of a Spain-wide demonstration against the country's precarious economic conditions. At least 121 people were lightly injured.
June
June 2: Four people have been killed in a major explosion at an oil refinery in south-west Wales.
June 20: More than 300 people were injured in a sectarian interface near a Catholic enclave in east Belfast.
June 21: 44 people have died in a plane crash in north-west Russia.[citation needed]
July
July 10: At least 122 people have died when a passenger ship sank with more than 200 people aboard on Russia's Volga River.
July 29: At least 17 people were killed and 11 injured in an explosion in Suhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine, Ukraine. A short time after the explosion, an elevator collapsed at the Bazhanova coal mine, in the industrial city of Makiivka. According to local authorities, two miners were killed and three others were injured.
August
August 6–11: Riots and looting initially breakout in London but spread to other English cities. The initial riot occurred after a peaceful protest in Tottenham, north London over the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, which later turned violent. The aftermath saw over 3000 arrests made, consisting of individuals involved in rioting, looting, arson and other related criminal activity, 5 people killed and 186 police officers injured.
August 9: A Russian cargo plane has crashed in a remote far eastern area, with all 11 people on board believed to have been killed.
September 7: At least 45 people died when a plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team crashed during take-off.[citation needed]
September 15: Four miners died after the Gleision Colliery was flooded by the waters of River Tawe due to an explosion.
September 26: Two people have been killed and six others injured in ethnic clashes in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.
October
October 15: A protest took place in Rome, Italy, to protest against economic inequality and the influence of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund on politics and also against the government of Silvio Berlusconi. The protest turned into a violent demonstration, resulting in the injury of 135 people and the arresting of 13 others.
October 20: Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declared an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.
October 23: At least 604 people were killed and more than 4,152 injured in a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, near the city of Van, Turkey.
October 24: 17 people died in Western European unprecedented floods, caused by low-pressure area Meeno.
October 27: After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion.
November
November 4: Seven people have been killed and 51 injured in a 34-vehicle pile-up on the M5 motorway in Somerset.
November 9: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck south-west of Van, causing the death of over 12 people in the collapse of several hotels.
December
December 18: A jack-up rig capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk with the loss of 53 of its 67 crew.
