While selecting a city to travel or for living our main
concerns have been always to look at the safety of
our family and ourselves. While most of us have
known about the popular and safest places to live,
travel or work. These cities are dangerous due to
uncontrolled drug trafficking, violence, political
corruption and are highly dominated by ruthless and
violent gangs fueled by illegal drug trading and
arms. Here is a list of such top 10 most dangerous
cities in 2013-2014 for you to avoid if you do not
wish to invite trouble.
10.
Manaus, Brazil
Once known to be quiet and a peaceful town has
transformed into a town full of crime over these
years. Due to its location between Rio and
Tabatinga, the town became a good location for
routing the illegal actions. Tabatinga is the place
where all the drugs are imported and distributed.
Manaus is being used for trading the imported
drugs through their distribution routes and make
their way to Rio where they are sold.The Violence
due to drug trade can be seen every now and then
where even the innocents are not spared. The town
is with a population of 1,342,846 has a record of
over 945 Homicides last year and 70.37 per capita
murders.
9.
Mogadishu, Somalia
Think of Mogadishu and you might recall the
famous Movie, “Black Hawk Down”, although the
movie is old the situations in Mogadishu has not
changed much, the place has seen worst until about
two years back the people were able to ousted the
Islamic extremists, who controlled the large parts of
Mogadishu. Although the city has been trying to
recover and even the Turkish Airlines flying in
there, things do get quite unpredictable when it
comes to the degree of violence.
8.
Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Barquisimeto, in Venezuela, is a place with a
population of not more than 1,120,718, but the last
years Homicides are shocking and are alarming for
anyone to even thing of being or visiting the place
for any purpose. There have been 804 Homicide
cases registered last year and over 71.74 murders
per capita. The future chance of improvement in the
place is further ruled out with the death of Huge
Chavez in the month of March this year. With a
whooping number of 57 murders daily this place is a
clear invitation to trouble and may be death for
tourists.
7.
Chihuahua, Mexico
The hotspot for Cocaine Smuggling and a popular
route for making its way to United States, the city
has been the home for vicious Cartel Violence. The
place is the transit point for all types of drugs, and
in order to gain more control over the place, high
level of violence is a common site where armed
men indiscriminately open fire.
6.
Distrito Central, Honduras
Over these years, the increasing levels of crime and
open violence has been noted in Distrito Central
due to high levels of poverty, Mafia and corrupted
city falls on the route to South America to United
States. The three places encompassed in Distrito
Central are Honduras, Comayaguela and
Tegucigalpa, combined the cities have been
experiencing 100 over homicides cases per
100,000, which accounts among the highest number
of murder rates in the world. The degree of violence
is high.
5. Acapulco, Mexico
Otherwise beautiful city with decent amount of
tourists visiting the place has turned into another
victim of sadistic drug violence which has been
engulfing Mexico gradually from a long time. With
the shocking news of 10 mutilated bodies found
around the city made further negative impact on the
city’s image. With the tourism officials having less
to say about these incidences, it remains the worst
and the most dreaded places to be on a holiday.
4.
Cape Town, South Africa
The Place has been a good destination for tourists
from around the world, but as we all feel little
uncontrolled violence brings in more violent crimes
and this is what has happened with Cape Town. The
Place is prone to mugging and has been constantly
been seen battling high crime rates, especially the
night life has become extremely unpredictable with
high levels of crimes and attacks specially targeted
towards women. Cape Town is the 4th most
dangerous city of 2013.
3.
Nairobi, Kenya
The place has been long targeted by militants
especially, Al Shabaab militants, who have been
threatening to attack during festive season such as
Ramazan. The People have been living in tensed
environment with little time and safe environment
for locals itself there seems to be no safe place for
tourists.
2.
Sana’a, yemen
The capital city has been experience some of the
worst time since long time, which includes the
political instability adding to more crimes at higher
levels. Although US and Gulf allies have been trying
their best to restore peace in the place, but it is a
long way to go for tourists to step in the city for a
safe holiday.
1.
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
After years of ruthless violence and war, the
security situation in Abidjan seems to have
recovered recently, especially after the arrest of the
former president Laurent Gbagbo. But the place still
has a boiling sheet of uncertainty which is not safe,
the outburst of which could be instant and quite
unpredictable hence making it among the most
dangerous places to step in. Abidjan, Ivory Coast is
the World’s most dangerous city of 2013.