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The JT of 20 Hours offers 24 hours of images from Mexico, with a train on fire after its collision with a tanker truck, violent demonstrations in Chad which leave more than 50 dead in N’Djamena, and floods in a desert in China.
Remains of barricades and charred tires in N’Djamena, capital of Chad. These are the traces of a day of demonstration among the deadliest that the country has known, it left 50 dead and at least 300 injured. The demonstrators contest the two-year extension of the political transition period and the maintenance in power of Mahamat Idriss Déby, the son of the former president.
In Mexico, spectacular fires took place after a crash between a tank truck and a freight train that dragged the flaming liquid behind it in front of stunned motorists. Fifteen houses were destroyed and 1,500 people had to be evacuated.
China’s largest desert, in the Xinjiang region, is littered with water tables. The blue and gold decor would be sumptuous, if it were not the result of monster floods. The nearby river has overflowed, its biggest flood in ten years, forming lakes in the middle of the expanse of sand.