Update: Congo cargo plane crash death toll up to 32

A Congolese city morgue official on Sunday updated the death toll from a cargo plane crash two days ago to 32, as the search continued for more bodies in the wreckage at Brazzaville airport. So far...

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Harmony brings more bodies to surface in illegal mining disaster

Gold producer Harmony has confirmed that the number of illegal miner fatalities at its abandoned Eland shaft had reached 82, after another body was found on Monday morning. Five bodies of trespassing...

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Update: Japan Sasago tunnel collapse killed nine

Nine people are now confirmed to have died after a major tunnel collapsed in Japan, officials say. The bodies were found in three vehicles that were crushed by fallen concrete panels in the Sasago...

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Bodies of Armenians killed in Congolese plane crash to be identified

The pilot in command of the cargo plane that crashed in the Congolese capital Friday, Nov 30 evening, has been identified. “This was Varazdat Balasanyan, a citizen of Armenia,” spokesman for the Armenian...

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Burma: Lives still in limbo 4 years after Cyclone Nargis

When Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma's Irrawaddy Delta in 2008, the locals took shelter in rice sheds and temples, tied themselves to coconut trees and prayed they would survive the storm. Up to...

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