Mauritius: 10 killed after floods in Port Louis

At least 10 people were killed after the sudden floods in Mauritius capital Port Louis on Saturday. Eight dead bodies have been recovered so far, the BBC reported. The meteorologist said that...

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Update: Leading archaeologist calls for accountability on Matale mass grave

Following reports submitted by professor in archaeology Raj Somadeva and forensic medical specialist Ajith Jayasena, who investigated the unearthed human remains, Matale magistrate court has confirmed...

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Death toll in Tanzania building collapse rises to 22, bodies visually identified

As the death toll from the 16-storey building that collapsed in Dar es Salaam rose to 22 yesterday afternoon, there was fresh scare just opposite the ill-fated structure which scared off President...

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Floating bodies in Indira canal giving sleepless nights to the police

The Indira Gandhi Canal, which runs over 650 kilometres through Rajasthan, is considered a lifeline for thousands of farmers. The free flow of water is however giving sleepless nights to the police...

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Searchers pull bodies out of Tibet mudslide that buried 83

Authorities in Tibet said Sunday that chances were slim that any survivors would be found after a massive mudslide at a gold mine buried 83 workers in piles of earth up to 30 meters deep. Searchers...

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The bones tell the story: The search for Peru's missing

In Peru last week, forensic anthropologists revealed that for the first time, they had confirmed the identities of three individuals who had been disappeared by government forces during that country's...

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28 Dead in China Mine Gas Blast

Twenty-eight miners have been killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northeast China, state media have confirmed. The accident at the Babao Coal Mine in the city of Baishan in Jilin province...

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First body reportedly found after China landslide buries 83

Rescue teams found the first body Saturday almost 36 hours after a giant landslide in Tibet buried 83 mine workers under two million cubic metres of earth, China's state media reported. Xinhua...

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Rescuers dig through rubble seeking missing in Tanzania building collapse

Rescuers planned to search for survivors under a mountain of concrete and twisted metal Friday night after a high-rise building collapsed in Tanzania. At least four people were dead and 60 were missing...

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Military torture chamber near Matale mass grave

The survivors of a military-run detention centre that existed during the southern counter-insurgency campaign have alleged the army had operated a torture chamber in a government school in the vicinity...

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World Trade Center 9/11 construction debris to be sifted for human remains starting Monday

The city has collected about 60 dump truck loads of debris from construction areas around the World Trade Center site over the past two and a half years that will be sifted for fragments of 9/11 victims'...

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Officials in Lanzhou say bodies floating in river not affecting water quality

Lanzhou officials say the quality of local water is actually improving – despite more than 100 bodies being discovered in the Yellow River each year. Between 2008 and 2012 police extracted 417 bodies...

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Landslide buries 83 in Tibet mine area

Eighty-three workers were buried after a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Tibet on Friday, China's state media reported. A coal mine near the city of Kaili in China's Guizhou province...

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Ivory Coast to exhume bodies from post-election conflict

Ivory Coast officials say exhumations of mass graves dating back to the country’s 2010-11 post-election violence will begin next week. Both the government and rights workers say this process could...

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9 killed, 12 hurt in Mewat bus accident

Nine persons, including three women and two children were killed and 12 were critically injured in a road accident in Mewat on Thursday afternoon when a dumper and private bus collided on Delhi-Alwar...

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Deaths reported in Tanzania building collapse

At least 15 people have been killed in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, when a building under construction collapsed, a police officer has said. Witnesses at the site, where some people...

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Japan raises specter of more devastating quake

The Nankai Trough extends for hundred of kilometers parallel with the Japanese coast, off heavily populated areas south of Tokyo. A new report has issued a chilling warning of what a major quake in...

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Srebrenica: 18 years after the genocide

50 percent of more than 8,000 victims of the Srebrenica Genocide have been identified up to now and 18 years still need to identify all the victims, said mayor of Srebrenica, Camil Durakovic, APA’s...

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Ten children still missing after Mae Surin refugee camp fire

About 10 children are still missing in the aftermath of the devastating inferno at Mae Surin refugee camp which has left 37 dead, activists say. Ben Mendoza, director of the Catholic Office for...

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Google Street View sends cameras into Namie, an abandoned town in Fukushima where once 21,000 people lived

It is a nuclear-era Mary Celeste, a town left virtually untouched since its 21,000 residents fled two years ago. Rubble and roof tiles still litter the streets from the huge earthquake that dislodged...

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At least 24 dead in Peru bus crash

At least 24 people, most of them mine workers, were killed Wednesday when their bus plunged into a ravine in southern Peru, local police said. Another 18 people were injured, according to a provisional...

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Sri Lankan mass grave dates back 25 years

A judge announced Wednesday that more than 150 human skulls and bones recovered from a mass grave were buried there about 25 years ago, strengthening suspicion that they belonged to suspected Marxist...

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Soldiers train on battlefield recovery of human remains

From behind a tree stump, Pfc. Brandan Bishop peers at the training dummy 20 meters away. He has rope-tied a slipknot onto the body to pull it clear from any possible undetected explosive devices that...

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Death Toll From Cililin Landslide Hits 12, Search for Victims Continues

Rescuers have unearthed two more bodies buried in Monday’s landslide in Cililin, West Bandung, bringing the death toll to 12. West Java Disaster Mitigation Agency head Udjwalaprana Sigit told Detik.com...

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India: Six killed in Bangalore factory fire

The government has ordered a thorough inquiry into Monday’s fire accident at S R Seating Systems at Kadabagere Cross, Magadi Road, that left six labourers dead. The Ramanagar district police on Tuesday...

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Medical Examiner’s List Of Unidentified Bodies Begins Yielding Results

Just a few weeks after the Cook County Medical Examiner put its list of unidentified and unclaimed remains online, a family has now stepped forward to make identification. Before now, he was known...

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Eight die as bus falls into ravine

Seven students of the Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Science and Technology at Vellanad near the capital were among eight people who died as a tourist bus turned turtle near Rajakkad in Idukki on Monday....

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