Mass grave found near Baghdad

The Iraqi police in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, on Wednesday (January 30th) found a mass grave containing the remains of 18 people, police said. Security forces and a health team examined the victims,...

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Libyan scientists get DNA training to identify Libya’s mass grave victims

DNA experts at the UNT Health Science Center will help train Libyan scientists to analyze the remains of an estimated 20,000 people found in mass graves in Libya following the uprising of 2011 in...

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San Diego Company to Help Identify up to 20,000 Human Remains Found in Libya's Mass Graves

Life Technologies Corporation today announced it will provide a complete laboratory solution to identify an estimated 20,000 human remains found in various mass graves in Libya following the uprising...

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8 killed, 13 wounded in factory blast in southeast Turkey

Eight people were killed and 15 were wounded in an explosion at a galvanization plant in the southeastern province of Gaziantep today, Dogan news agency has reported. Those injured in the blast...

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Tazreen victims: some solace for families

After two months of agonising wait, the family members of 11 victims of Tazreen fire could finally find a sense of closure as they paid respect to their loved ones at Jurain graveyard in the capital...

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Ireland: Law Reform Commission publishes report on civil law of missing persons

REPORT RECOMMENDS LAW TO ALLOW FAMILY OF MISSING PERSONS TO DEAL WITH ANY IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL ISSUES FOR MISSING PERSONS; AND TO ALLOW FAMILY APPLY FOR A DECLARATION OF PRESUMED DEATH TO A CORONER...

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Bodies of 17 victims in the plane crash identified

Relatives identified 17 bodies of victims of the Chellenger-200 air crash near Almaty, BNews.kz correspondent reports. This morning the identification of the victims, who were aboard of the plane Challenger...

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Jewish views on tattoos

Twenty five years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find a Jewish person with a tattoo that they did not receive at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Even more so, you would have had a hard...

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Police recover 17 bodies from well in northern Mexico, 14 identified as missing musicians

Police pulled 17 bodies from a well in northern Mexico and 14 of them have been identified as members of a musical band kidnapped by gunmen last week, an official said Tuesday. Investigators have...

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7 dead, 6 trapped in NE China mine accident

Seven workers died and six others were trapped in a coal mine accident in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province,the provincial coal mine safety administration said Wednesday. Three worker entered...

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Floating Bodies And Our Identification System

Forty bodies were found floating in Amansea community, along the border of Anambra and Enugu State. The unidentified bodies have been perceived by many as victims of extra judicial killings by government...

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DNA of 37 Tazreen fire victims matches with their family members

DNA test results of 37 Tazreen fire victims matched with the samples collected from their family members two months after the devastating fire that took place on November 24 last, a top official of...

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Ezu River - 15 Bodies Exhumed for Autopsy

Fifteen of the initial 18 bodies recovered from Ezu River in Anambra State were yesterday exhumed by a team of pathologists from the office of the Inspector General of Police and the Nnamdi Azikiwe...

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Bodies of plane crash victims to be delivered to Kalkaman morgue

The bodies of the victims of the plane crash near Almaty will be placed in Kalkaman morgue, Yuriy Ilyin, head of Almaty mobilization preparedness, civil defense, prevention and elimination of accidents...

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Eerie sounds of cell phones amid disaster adds to first-responder toll

The dead can't speak. Their cell phones do. And, for police, firefighters and paramedics, the incessant chirping, bleating and incongruously cheerful boom box beats of victims' cell phones comprise...

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5 dead in central China oil tank blast

The bodies of four missing people have been found after an oil storage tank exploded in central China's Hunan Province on Monday, taking the death toll to five, local authorities said. The blast...

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Update: More bodies of missing Mexican band members found in well

The Colombian-style music group was playing at a ranch in northern Mexico when at least 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was being held and forced them and several crew members...

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Coal mine gas explosion kills eight miners

At least eight coalmine workers were killed and two others wounded when an explosion took place in a private company’s coal mine in Dukki tehsil of Loralai district, some 180 kilometers away from...

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Passenger plane crashes near Kazakh city of Almaty

A passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan's commercial capital of Almaty on Tuesday, killing all 22 people on board, an emergency services official said. The Canadian-built Bombardier...

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Rescuers find 3 more bodies in West Sumatra, bringing death from landslides in Indonesia to 19

A government official says rescuers have found three more bodies, bringing the death toll from a landslide in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra to 14, including four children. That raises the...

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Cleansing ceremonies held at Chitungwiza’s “house of death”

Hundreds of people drawn from different Christian denominations yesterday descended on Chitungwiza’s “house of death” for a cleansing ceremony, blaming traditional healers for the death of five people...

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6 dead, 7 hurt as van falls into 300-meter ravine in Benguet

Six people were killed while seven others were injured when a van fell into a ravine in Atok, Benguet, on Sunday, the state disaster agency said. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...

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8 die when Russian fishing boat sinks in Sea of Japan

Six crewmen were killed and nine were still missing after a Russian fishing vessel sank off the coast of the Russian Far East, the emergency situations ministry said on Monday. Rescuers found a second...

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7 dead in NE China train-bus collision

Seven people died after a cargo train and a passenger bus collided on Monday morning in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, local government sources said. The collision happened at 7:36 a.m....

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Coalmine gas kills 8 in Balochistan

At least eight laborers were killed as toxic gas filled a coalmine in Dakki area of Loralayi in Balochistan. Quoting rescue sources, Geo News reported on Monday morning that at least eight coalmine...

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Death toll rises to 7 in Sirnak collapse

Death toll rises to seven in Turkey's south eastern province of Sirnak following the collapse of the sustaining wall on Sunday. Fire brigade and search and rescue teams have continued their search...

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8 bodies found in Mexico where band went missing

At least eight bodies were pulled from a well in northern Mexico on Sunday near the site where 20 people went missing late last week, including members of a Colombian-style band, according to a state...

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Victims of Nazi anatomists named

Liane Berkowitz was just 19 years old when she was executed by the Nazis. She was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 when they caught her putting up posters that displayed messages of protest against...

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Toxic smoke, blocked exit caused Brazil nightclub fire deaths; 3 still unidentified

A fire sparked by a music band’s fireworks swept through a nightclub thronged with University students in Southern Brazil’s Santa Maria, killing at least 233, with most of them dying after inhaling...

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Anger at silence over deadly Venezuelan jail riot

A prison riot in southwestern Venezuela has killed 61 people, a hospital official says, although the government has refused to give an official death toll in the bloody standoff that highlighted...

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Antarctica plane crash body recovery on hold until October

The recovery of the bodies of three Canadians killed in a plane crash in Antarctica is on hold until at least October. The men were onboard a Twin Otter aircraft which crashed in bad weather last...

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Another landslide kills 5 oil, gas firm workers in Indonesia

Five workers of PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy, part of state oil and gas firm PT Pertamina were killed in landslides in Jambi province on Sunday, and two got seriously injured and two had minor wounds,...

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Mozambique flood toll rises to 40

The death toll from flooding in Mozambique has climbed to at least 40 after four more bodies were discovered in the worst-hit southern town of Chokwe, while the number of people forced to flee has...

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