Snow and fog impedes efforts to locate a helicopter that went missing in Peru’s highlands

LIMA, Peru — Snow and fog impeded efforts Thursday to locate a helicopter that went missing in Peru’s highlands with 14 people aboard, including eight South Koreans and three Europeans. Authorities...

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Argentina pushing to identify its 'unknown' soldiers 30 years after Falklands war

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Nelida Montoya is tormented by the image of a faraway tomb on a lonely hillside in the South Atlantic, where instead of the name of her son, a gravestone reads "Argentine soldier known only to God." Horacio Echave was only 19 when he died in the Falkland Islands on the last day of fighting against British forces, a war that ended the Argentines' 74-day occupation of the archipelago they claim as their "Islas Malvinas." His body is one of 123 that couldn't be identified before they were reburied in the Argentine military cemetery near Darwin, a settlement hours from the capital of Stanley where many soldiers on both sides fell in close combat 30 years ago. "They went there with a name and now they're just so many unknowns. Why?" said Montoya, 69. "I want my son to have his name." Montoya is part of a group of families who want desperately to send Argentine scientists to the islands to identify their war dead,...

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Charred bodies of YSR, others identified by clothes

The bodies of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were identified by their clothes on Thursday as they were charred beyond recognition in a helicopter crash, police said. "We go by evidence like what clothes one is wearing. A pilot wears a particular uniform and we can find traces of that uniform on the body," said state Director General of Police S S P Yadav. The bodies of the chief minister, his special secretary and Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer P Subrahmanyam, chief security officer A S C Wesley, pilot Group Captain S K Bhatia and co-pilot Captain M S Reddy were found amid the chopper's wreckage. The police chief said the bodies had been airlifted and shifted to Kurnool for autopsy. Yadav said the pilot of the chopper had deviated from the flight path. "What made him deviate is something that technical experts will look into," he said. Hyderabad, September 03, 2009 http://www.hindu...

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