Northwest Pakistan Bus Crash Kills 16

At least 16 people were killed and 23 others were injured when a bus, en route from Karachi to Peshawar, rammed into a 22-wheeler trailer-truck on the Indus Highway on Saturday morning. Police confirmed...

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Landslide kills 5 in Tasikmalaya

At least five people were killed in a landslide in Taraju village, in Tasikmalaya regency on Sunday evening. National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in statement on...

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Zambo City holds mass burial for unclaimed cadavers

The remains of 25 unclaimed cadavers stored for almost a year at the Villa Funeral Homes here, were buried in a mass grave Friday at the city government-owned cemetery in Barangay Talabaan. The...

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Needed: space for the dead

As bodies continue to pile up with violence in Karachi showing no sign of abating, every inch of the Edhi morgue’s cold storage in Sohrab Goth is precious, to say the least. But for the past two...

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19 dead, 4 missing in China coal mine accident

Four miners remain trapped Sunday after a coal gas explosion killed 19 miners in a mine in southwestern China. State media reported that, a total of 28 miners were working when the underground blast...

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Edhi gets ‘biggest’ mobile mortuary in world

The Edhi Foundation has acquired a refrigerated mobile mortuary for transportation of at least 16 and a maximum of 32 bodies at a time. The mobile mortuary parked at the Edhi Centre near Tower for...

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Public hospitals forced to foot burial bills for unclaimed patients

Scores of persons abandoned in life at public hospitals are also deserted at death, leaving the health facilities to bear the cost of burying these persons whose relatives do not turn up to claim their...

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Probe mine mishap

The Catholic Church is demanding an investigation into the real cause of the accident at a mining site in Paracale, Camarines Norte that is believed to have caused the death of at least 12 miners....

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Under-construction Chittagong flyover collapse death toll 12

Death toll reaches 12 as rescue teams until Sunday morning recovered more bodies from under the debris of three girders of the under-construction Bahaddarhat flyover, police said. The girders collapsed...

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Update: At least 112 killed in Bangladesh clothing factory fire

The blaze broke out at the seven-story factory operated by Tazreen Fashions late Saturday. By Sunday morning, firefighters had recovered 100 bodies, fire department Operations Director Maj. Mohammad...

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