A Weekend of Death-Virginia and Kolkota

From the 8th-10th December 2011, there have been two tragedies in the world:

On the 8th December, Virginia Tech University suffered another shooting, this time with Ross Ashley being the perpetruator. However, instead of the 32 killed an 25 injured by Seung Hui Cho in 2007, this time only two died; the shooter himself 22 year-old Ross Ashley (who committed suicide) and Police Officer Deriek Crouse. Crouse was stopping traffic at Cassell Coliseum near the McComas Hall on campus when Ashley shot and killed him. Ashley then ran to another parking lot called The Cage where he killed himself. Luckily for the University, most students were not scheduled for class as it was a reading day, an alert was placed at 12.37pm, campus was on lock-down at 1.01pm and the closing of Montgomery County Schools at 2.12 pm. It is not known the motives for the shooting except that he broke-up with his girlfriend over the summer (an echoing of the autistic Seung Hui Cho stalking girls) ; Ashley was not a student but he played football and had an interest in the Bible, friends say he never drank heavily or smoked and was not the kind of person who would lose his temper.He visited the same shooting range as Cho. Details will come over time.

Also on the 8th December 2011, a fire broke out in AMRI hospital in Kolkata, India; killing over 90 people and counting. The cause of the fire is allegedley combustable materials such as gas cylinders being stored in a basement used for car parking. What adds insult to injury is the fact that authorities did not allow civilians to help in rescue attemps (slum dwellers had to scale the walls with bamboo to get in and help) and the first  fire engines came two hours after the fire broke out. India is the second-fasest growing economy in the world behind China with some saying they will overtake China (who will be number one in the 2050s) to the number one spot in the 2060s-2070s. Whereas China made their economy sustain a three-decade long boom government set policies,economy planning and policing; India have adopted a lassiez-faire approach with lots of underhand transactions and competitiveness amongst each other to get the best job. This will damage India's reputation,especially since medicine and healthcare are one of their strengths.