Authorities ID 5 victims of Tahoe plane crash

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Authorities say the five victims of a single-engine plane crash near South Lake Tahoe include a Fresno trucking company owner and a 6-year-old girl. El Dorado County sheriff's...

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26 victims identified in fatal bus accident

YAN'AN - The identity of 26 people, who were killed in a bus-tanker collision in Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Sunday, have been confirmed, the local government said Tuesday. DNA testing...

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11 die in Haiti mudslides, rains

A storm set off mudslides and flooding that killed at least 11 people in impoverished Haiti, officials said yesterday. Rains engulfed the capital for several hours Monday night, turning hilly streets...

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18 bodies recovered as Cameroon dam floods 250 Nigerian villages

UPI – A massive release of water from a dam in Cameroon submerged 250 villages in neighboring Nigeria and killed an unknown number of people. Eighteen bodies were recovered Monday from the Benue...

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Flash floods: 18 feared dead as bus swept away in AJK

AJK / MIRPUR: At least 18 people, including eight women, are feared dead, while nine others were injured, after a passenger bus was swept away in a flash flood in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Tuesday....

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DNA advances help identify dead buried in NYC potter's field; 54 bodies exhumed

NEW YORK, N.Y. - On a wind-swept island off New York City, the remains of 850,000 people rest in pine boxes in a grid of covered trenches — but many are not resting in peace. They are the unidentified...

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Crash victims’ identification process continues

The Indonesian disaster victim identification (DVI) team has found it difficult to identify the remains of the victims of last week’s Cessna Piper Navayo Chiftain PA31 crash in East Kalimantan due to their condition. Budi, of the Indonesia DVI, said that the remains that were severely damaged and too difficult to identify at the AW Syahranie hospital in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, and would be sent to Jakarta for further investigation. “We have been working very hard round the clock, matching the DNA of the victims and those of their respective family members,” Budi said on the phone on Tuesday. Matching the DNA, according to Budi, was the most effective way of revealing the identities of all the victims, especially due to the condition of the remains. He said the family members of each of the victims had arrived in Samarinda for that purpose. He also expressed gratitude to the Australian Embassy for having brought the son of...

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