The wave of deaths and catastrophic events that has swept through the world in the past couple of weeks is really starting to look worrisome. Within three weeks, more than 500 people have lost their lives in fire accidents, collapsed buildings, terror attacks, e.t.c. It started with the Boston marathon bombing in the US which claimed about three lives. A few days after, a fertilizer plant in Texas got fiery and by the time the hullabaloo died down, fifteen people had been killed. Hours later, news media reported that a MIT policeman had been shot dead by the suspected bombers and by the time the angel of death left Uncle Sam, twenty people, including one of the suspected bombers were dead. As if that wasn't enough, the wave of terror swept over the Atlantic to west Africa, Nigeria, where government army forces went to war with extremists in the village of Baga in northern Nigeria. A hundred and eighty-five people went down as collateral damage by the time the last bullet was fired. Next in line was Bangladesh. This time, the messenger of death struck through a collapsed building. An eight-story building housing numerous factory workers crashed and with it two hundred and seventy five lives. While the carnage continued in Syria, another tragedy struck in Russia when a mental institution went Texas on its inmates by going up in flames. It took with it thirty-eight lives. Not done yet, some loon in northern Germany went berserk and shot to death a county mayor before taking his own life. Another thirty people bade the world adios when the bus they were traveling in collided with an oil tanker in Afghanistan. Just today, another building collapsed in India, killing fifteen souls.
Needless to say, the world is on a gradual grind to insanity. Our world is becoming topsy-turvy more than it was thirty years ago. With so much avoidable deaths happening within the space of just three weeks, it can be said emphatically that these are indeed trying times. People get their lives snuffed out of them like chickens, human and man-made catastrophes of unimaginable magnitude continue to occur and man's inhumanity to man has risen to frightening levels. Are we finally nearing the apocalypse? As we offer our condolences to the bereaved worldwide and continue to sympathize with the distressed, the question of who will save the savior remains pertinent as we advance rapidly down the self-destruct slope.
