For two mothers, the charred remains might have been their boy

Amid the nauseating stench of death inside the Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth, two elderly women were at each other’s throats. The bone of contention was a body. One claimed it was her son “Honey”. The...

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Bus crash in China kills five Germans

A BUS carrying many German tourists has hit the back of a truck and burst into flames on an expressway in northern China, killing five Germans and a Chinese citizen, state media report. The accident...

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Relatives of missing ferry passengers gather at Kwai Chung mortuary

Dozens of people gathered at Kwai Chung Public Mortuary by 10am on Tuesday morning, looking for relatives who went missing in the Lamma ferry disaster. The mood was sombre and subdued as the relatives...

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Ferry, tug collide off Hong Kong, killing 25 passengers

A ferry and a tugboat collided off Hong Kong on Monday night, killing 25 people and sending dozens of passengers into the water, according to government and medical authorities. The crash necessitated...

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