Eight die in East China road accident

Eight people have died and four others were injured after an overloaded car collided with a truck in East China's Shandong province early Monday morning, local authorities said. The accident happened...

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Four killed in Bengal road accident

At least four people were killed and 16 others were injured when a pick-up van, in which they were travelling, overturned in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district Monday, police said. "Four people have...

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Natural disaster throws children into the arms of pedophiles

It was the morning of December 26,2004, and a quiet calm rested over the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. A short distance away, pristine beaches decorated the coast of this traveler’s paradise as they...

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Mastung bus attack: Bodies shifted to Rawalpindi

Twelve dead bodies of the people killed in a terrorist attack on a bus of pilgrims in Mastung, Balochistan, transferred to Rawalpindi through a special flight. The bodies of nine persons were kept...

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In storm-devastated areas, hope for 2013

Slowly walking over logs and boulders while carrying two water containers, 56-year old Tessie Jentapa fetches water in the same river where her husband died when Typhoon “Pablo” battered Barangay Andap...

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26 Somali, Eritrean migrants found dead in Libya

At least 23 Somali and three Eritrean migrants died in an overturned truck accident in Libya, Kenya's Africa Review reported Saturday (December 29th). The migrants were reportedly heading to Tripoli...

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Nine people dead in bus crash near Pendleton

Nine people are dead and at least 39 people injured after a tour bus crashed down a steep, snow-covered embankment near Pendleton on Sunday morning. Emergency responders described a precarious scene,...

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Colombia landslide kills five in Neiva with 25 missing

Rescue teams in Colombia have been searching for at least 25 people missing after a landslide cut off a road near the south-western city of Neiva. Five people were killed in the accident, which...

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‘Quinta’ death toll rises to 20

Philippines–Eight more bodies have been recovered from flood-hit villages in Western Visayas, bringing to 20 the official death toll from Tropical Storm “Quinta,” the National Disaster Risk Reduction...

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Bomb kills 19 Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan

At least 19 Shiite Muslim pilgrims were killed when a car bomb destroyed three buses in southwest Pakistan. The attack comes as security forces searched for the killers of 21 kidnapped troops in...

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Four Die, 20 Missing As Mudslides Hit Pokot

4 bodies have been recovered and atleast 20 people said to have gone missing following yet another case of raging floods and mudslides in pokot on Saturday. Efforts are currently ongoing in the area...

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5 children, 1 adult killed in Mississippi car crash

Five young siblings and one adult died early Saturday when a sport utility vehicle went off an eastern Mississippi road and plunged into a rain-swollen creek, authorities said. Neshoba County Sheriff...

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Chile Lowers Death Toll in Andes Car Crash

The governor of the Chilean province of Los Andes, Edith Quiroz, has lowered the number of fatalities to four in the collision of a bus and a truck on the route connecting Chile and Argentina through...

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9 killed in Narsingdi crash

The death toll in the road crash that occurred on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Shibpur upazila in Narsingdi on Sunday rose to 12 as three more people died of fatal injuries at the hospital. The accident...

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10 killed in Marakwet landslides, Kenya

At least 10 people among them three children have been killed after landslides hit Elgeyo Marakwet County following heavy rains. The landslides occurred in Kocholwo, Simit, Kapsokom, Kaptarkom and...

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7 injured, 20 missing in Colombia landslide

At least seven people were injured and some 20 others went missing in a landslide reoccurred Saturday in southern Colombia, relief agencies said. The incident occurred when a bulldozer was removing...

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Bodies of Moscow Air Crash Victims Identified

December 30 (RIA Novosti) – The bodies of all the victims in an air crash at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport have been identified, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Sunday. A Russian Tupolev Tu-204...

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Kenya: Baragoi Officer Buried in Teso

A victim of the Baragoi bandits attack was buried on Wednesday at Osuret village in Teso South after nearly two months. A DNA test released a few days before Christmas enabled the identification...

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Remains of Operation Condor''s Uruguayan Victim Delivered

The remains of Uruguayan fighter Alberto Mechoso, a victim of military dictatorships' Operation Condor, were delivered to his family today in the presence of President Jose Mujica. The urn with...

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Azazi’s kinsmen threaten to boycott burial

Some members of the Peretorugbene community in Bayelsa State, the hometown of the late former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi, have warned against burying him in Yenagoa, capital of the...

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100 bodies in Durango mass grave identified since January

Less than 30 percent of victims found in Durango's mass graves have been identified, according to Mexican news accounts. A news report posted on the website of El Siglo de Durango news daily, Durango...

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6 killed, 50 injured in Pakistan blast

At least six persons were killed and nearly 50 others injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a bus a short distance from the Pakistan Army chief’s official residence in the southern port...

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An-72 crash investigation well under way

Forensic experts have identified nine persons killed in the Antonov An-72 airplane crash occurred near the South Kazakhstan city of Shymkent. A spokesman of the Kazakh Prosecutor's General Office...

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Four dead as passenger jet crashes into highway after landing at Moscow Vnukovo Airport

A passenger jet crashed after making a hard landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. At least four people were killed and four critically injured, says the Interior Ministry. Officials believe the cause...

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Families of plane crash victims received 1 million tenge each, ask for burial rituals

Akim (Governor) of South-Kazakhstan oblast Askar Myrzakhmetov has transferred 1 million tenge ($6,700) to the families of each officer who died in the plane crash near Shymkent, Tengrinews.kz reports....

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Update: Scores feared dead after boat sinks off Bissau

Twenty-two people died and more than 75 were missing after an overloaded boat sank off the coast of Guinea-Bissau on Friday, hospital and port officials said. The narrow wooden boat was ferrying...

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11 dead as boat capsizes in Ivory Coast lake

Eleven people perished and one was missing after a boat capsized in a lake in central Ivory Coast, the captain said on Friday. The accident occurred on Wednesday in Lake Kossou, near the village...

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Families still in pain over killings of kin

Mary Muthoni is still in deep anguish over the fate of her 28-year-old son who went missing in the operation to recover stolen cattle in Suguta valley. Tired of waiting for answers from the police...

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22 die, 69 missing as Atlantic boat sinks

AT least 22 people died and 69 are missing after their overloaded boat sank off the capital of Guinea-Bissau, rescue workers said. A total of 97 people were aboard the boat en route from the Atlantic...

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7 killed in Kollam van-bus collision

In a head-on collision between a van and a fast passenger bus of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation at Nilamel on Friday morning, seven persons were killed. Seventeen of those critically injured...

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Fire erupts in hutment: 6 die

Fire erupted in the huts resulting six children dead in the Goath Umar Manjothi area of the city on Thursday. Sources said that late night fire stretched in the hutment. At least six children succumbed...

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Cyborg Cockroaches May Be Future Emergency Responders

Researchers say they've figured out a way to create cyborg, remote-controlled cockroaches, hoping one day the resilient creatures could be steered into disaster zones to gather information and look...

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In New Bataan, they buried the dead, finally, but temporarily

They finally buried the dead three weeks after super typhoon Pablo hit this town on December 4, but only temporarily. At the public cemetery in Purok 4, Barangay Cabinuangan on Thursday afternoon,...

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Chasnala mine disaster victims remembered

Rich tributes were paid to 375 miners who met their watery grave at Chasnala colliery on this day way back in 1975. The deafening sound of siren broke the eerie calm at around 1.35pm and hundreds...

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Nine killed, 11 injured in Osun in auto crash

Nine persons were killed and eleven sustained severe injuries on Thursday in an auto crash which occurred along Gbongan-Ife Express Road, Osun State, South west Nigeria. It was gathered that the...

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At least 13 people killed in Nepal bus accident

A bus has veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in western Nepal, killing at least 13 people and leaving 19 others critically injured. Police official Binod Ghimire said the bus...

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Truck crash kills five in central Cuba

Five people, including three children, have been killed and seven others injured when a truck overturned in the central province of Villa Clara, local media reported on Friday. The truck of the state-run...

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10 dead, 10 injured in S China road accident

Ten people, including five children, were killed and 10 others injured after a minibus fell into a mountain valley Friday morning in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A nine-seat minibus...

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Quinta death toll rises to 11

The death toll of tropical storm Quinta was raised to 11 as more bodies were found after the flooding in Visayas, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRM) said on Friday,...

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China, Philippines on top of Asian countries worst hit by disasters in 2012

The Philippines is placed second only to China in the list of countries in Asia worst hit by disasters during the year, according to a report released recently by the United Nations Office for Disaster...

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Czech investigation of post-war violent events in Dobronin closed

The Czech police have closed their more than two-year enquiry into the alleged post-war violence of Czechs against local Germans in the Dobronin village near Jihlava, the police told CTK today, adding...

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Gipuzkoa wants to exhume Basque fighters killed in Spain´s Civil War

The city of Donosita-San Sebastian and the Diputacion (provincial government) of Guipuzkoa want to exhume the bodies of around 100 gudaris, or Basque fighters, who were killed in the Spanish province...

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