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According to flight tracking site Flightradar24, the two planes were flying parallel to each other 8 miles apart, and were on paths on which they could have converged 11 miles apart,

But the damage to government services, he added, could "parallel the toll of the 2015 earthquake which took almost 9,000 lives".

While cautioning that the country is nowhere near as fractured as it was when the Civil War erupted, Waite and other scholars of the period say they do increasingly see parallels.

UN Secretary General António Guterres recently declared "the levels of death and destruction in Gaza are without parallel in recent times".

The Danish health system has certain parallels with the NHS - not least as both are mainly funded by taxpayers.