Harare Hospital in mass burial of 700 infants

HARARE Central Hospital last Friday conducted mass burials for 700 neo-natal infants, whose remains had piled up at the hospital's mortuary over several months. The hospital had been unable to incinerate...

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Thai 'trophy shots' shock mourners

When Perth travel agent Michelle Smith was stabbed to death in Phuket, ambulance workers shocked her grieving friends by posing for a photo with her dead body and placed on facebook. But scenes like...

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Search for bodies in Ghana ends

Rescue efforts at the multi-storey shopping centre that collapsed in Ghana’s capital, Accra, last week have ended, officials have said. The final death toll was 14, not 18 as initially reported by...

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Massive search seeks quake, tsunami bodies

Hundreds of Japanese officers and military personnel continue the search for thousands of people missing 20 months after the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami. The search Sunday was in coastal areas...

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DNA Testing Identifies Body of Youth Killed Last Year by Gaddafi Militia

The body of a young Libyan killed by Gaddafi loyalists last year during the conflict that eventually ousted the former Libyan dictator that was found dumped in a remote area of the Libyan desert called...

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15 Sites Found for 'Disappearing' Bodies in Mexico

Several declassified documents reveal that Mexican authorities are unable to estimate the number of victims whose bodies have disappeared, their remains destroyed by criminal organizations in at least...

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Warsaw exhumes two more Smolensk victims

Two male victims of the 2010 Smolensk air disaster were exhumed in Warsaw on Monday morning, owing to concerns that the deceased were buried in the wrong graves. The process began at 4 am local time...

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Filipino killed in Riyadh blast was Syrian

A Filipino driver initially identified as one of the 22 people who died in a truck explosion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia turned out to be a Syrian national, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) revealed...

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Welikada Prison Incident - more bodies identified

Three more bodies that were discovered following the prison riot in Welikada have been identified today. Police said that steps have been taken to hand over the bodies to the families of the individuals. Twenty...

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