The Weddings That Kill

Sept. 30, 2010 - PRLog -- The joy of attending weddings, or getting married can prove to be a very dangerous pastime.

A groom accidentally killed three of his relatives at his and eight guests were wounded in the village of Akcagoze in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep.

The groom unleashed a series of rapid aerial shots with an AK-47 rifle in order to celebrate his marriage, the Anatolia news agency said. The groom quickly lost control of the weapon and accidentally shot his guests.

The wounded guests included three children 12, 10, and 16 of age. His father and two of his aunts died in hospital.

The police apprehended the groom.

Turks are well known for breaking out into gunshots as a sign of celebration at weddings and sports victories. This is a practice that has caused numerous deaths and which authorities have so far failed to curb.

A bridegroom was killed, including 3 other people, while celebrating a pre- wedding party at a Buffalo restaurant. Some eyewitness said around 2.30 a.m. a fight broke out inside the City Grill, and then spilled out onto the street, where gunfire exploded.  

A wedding guest died and eight others fell seriously ill, while dozens of other guests were affected, after of an outbreak of salmonella poisoning at a wedding reception.

A bomb strike by Taliban militants, using a young teenage boy strapped into a suicide vest, in a village in Kandahar, during a wedding, killed at least 40 people and left more than 80 injured. The attack took place as the male guests were seated for dinner, as retaliation for American special forces’ development projects in the region. The women guests were in a separate area. The groom was injured, but survived the attack.

A groomsman was killed and the entire 14-member wedding party injured, just hours before the wedding, when a shuttle bus crashed. The group was on their way for pre-wedding photographs. The ceremony, the next day, took place in the Indianapolis’ Methodist Hospital.

In the southern city of Karak, a 26 year old Jordanian man stabbed his teenage cousin to death with a dagger, when he inflicted five wounds in the chest and stomach, where she was being married before a judge.

The man said the bride had jilted him.

“The court condemned the man to death by hanging, as well as sentencing his brother, who was charged with being an accessory to the murder, to 15 years hard labour,” an official said.

Six deaths, including a 13 year old boy, devastated a Toronto wedding when a pickup truck plowed into a late-night procession of wedding celebrators. Seventeen others, including 2 infants, were also injured.

For more information about "The Weddings That Kill", visit website http://www.tropicpost.com/wedding-deaths/

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