Approximately 28 people disappear daily in Italy

An interior ministry commission report released on Wednesday on disappearances in Italy said that 28 people go missing daily throughout the country. The figure is 10% higher than 2011 numbers. Since...

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3 more bodies recovered from Gayari

ISLAMABAD: Due to continued efforts by the Pakistan Army, three more bodies of soldiers were recovered from Gayari Sector of Siachen on Wednesday, bringing the total number of bodies recovered so far...

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130 missing in Rohingya boat sinking, say police

About 130 people are missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees who were headed for Malaysia sank off Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh police and a Rohingya advocacy group on Wednesday. Hundreds...

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Why dead body management in disasters matters

Dead body management is a key element of disaster response: How corpses are dealt with can have a profound impact and long-lasting effect on the mental health of survivors and communities, say experts....

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'Celebratory' gunfire at Saudi wedding brings down electricity cable killing 23 women and children

More than 20 women and children have died and dozens others were injured when traditional celebratory gunfire at a Saudi wedding brought down an electric cable causing a fire to break out. A total...

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Prosecutor confirms second burial mix-up of Smolensk victims

Military prosecutors have confirmed that the last president of Poland's Cold War-era government-in-exile was laid to rest at the wrong site following the 2010 Smolensk air disaster. According to...

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Two Baldia fire victims identified

Two more victims of the Baldia factory incident were identified on Tuesday. DNA tests confirmed the identities of Rafaqat Liaquat, a resident of Ittehad Town, and Shahbaz Mohammad, a resident of Baldia...

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Bahawalpur road accident leaves 26 dead

BAHAWALPUR - A passenger van crashed into a pick-up truck at a busy highway intersection near Bahawalpur on Tuesday, leaving 26 people, including women and children, dead. Sohail Tajik, Bahawalpur...

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Hurricane Sandy kills at least 18 in New York

At least 18 New Yorkers were killed during superstorm Sandy -- including an off-duty cop who drowned in his basement while rescuing his family. And the toll could still rise: two little boys, ages...

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Lagos Boat Mishap: Missing Bodies Recovered

Hours of thorough search of the Imude community lagoon, Otto-Awori Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Lagos, has paid off as the remaining three bodies out of the 10 that drowned in a boat mishap...

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Hurricane Sandy knocks down tree, turns up skeleton

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — In addition to being one of the more devastating storms ever to hit the east coast, Hurricane Sandy can now be counted as a gravedigger. The storm knocked a tree down in New Haven,...

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Hurricane Sandy forces coffins of the dead to rise up from the ground

After having leveled huge swathes of New York City and the East Coast as it rampaged through the region on Monday night, superstorm Sandy inflicted a final indignity as it caused coffins to rise from...

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Searching for Mexico's drug war 'disappeared'

With thousands of people missing after six years of murderous violence linked to Mexico's drugs cartels, families say they want more done to find their loved ones. It was a warm night in the Mexican...

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CTV rescuers haunted by experience, inquest told

The first police officer at the scene of the CTV building collapse says rescuers will always wonder whether they could have done more to save those trapped under rubble. Coroner Gordon Matenga is...

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Death toll in Rivers’ floods rises to 30

The death toll of flood victims camped in various parts of Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State has increased to over 30. Among the dead were two new born babies. The sad news of flood...

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Four Oshikoto crash victims still not identified

Since Saturday grieving families have been streaming to the Oshakati police mortuary to identify the bodies of their loved ones, who were tragically killed in a horrific accident that claimed nine...

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Missing persons event draws relatives of 23 missing people in Arkansas

When a decomposing body was pulled from between two barges on the Mississippi River in Mississippi County on April 19, 2003, investigators were left with few clues to determine its identity. The...

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The Unnamed of Calderon Leave Their Mark

Mexico • 24,102 people: the equivalent of half a football stadium or a medium-sized town is the approximate number of bodies that have gone to the grave at the end of the current administration. And...

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Powerful storm kills at least 30 in Philippines, Vietnam

As Hurricane Sandy lashes the East Coast of the United States with wind and rain, Southeast Asia is dealing with the trail of death and damage from a powerful storm that has killed at least 30 people...

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Hurricane Sandy: Death Toll Rises To 65 In Caribbean

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming...

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Smolensk disaster victim identification

th the body of Tadeusz Lutoborski, the chairman of the Katyń Families organization, both of whom were victims of the April 10, 2010 airplane crash in Smolensk that killed 96 people, radio station RMF...

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Horror crash kills 10

“IT was hell. Everyone was screaming and crying. I do not know what really happened because it was very fast like lightning.” These were the words of Aino Iitembu (32), one of the survivors of a...

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10 drown in Lagos boat mishap as LASEMA recovers 5 bodies

No fewer than 10 persons were Sunday drowned, when a passenger boat capsized in Ojo River, in Oto-Awori Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. It would be recalled that last February, similar...

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Jnaneswari victims' kin to move court

KOLKATA: Miffed over delay in issuing death certificates, members of 16 families, who lost their kin in the Jnaneswari Express accident on May 28, 2010, are planning to move the court. According to...

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Flood Sacks Mortuary: Attendants pile corpses on roof tops

The flood that caused havoc across the country has sacked the General Hospital, Patani in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State, forcing officials to stack corpses evacuated from the morgue...

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Hurricane Sandy’s death toll rises to 65 as flooding continues in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming...

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Edhi buries 200,000th unidentified body as govt apathy to issue persists

KARACHI, Oct 26: The number of unidentified bodies buried by the Edhi Foundation crossed the 200,000th mark earlier this month, as the police and other relevant authorities have failed to devise a...

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Nermin Sarajlic: Hunt for Missing Gets Harder Each Year

Nermin Sarajlic, a forensic pathologist and head of the Forensic Department of the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo - who has worked for the International Commission for Missing Persons, ICMP, in Bosnia...

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