Savar building collapse: confusion over missing estimates

The Savar tragedy rolls onto a week but there is no definitive statistics of how many are missing, raising doubts over how many corpses are buried under the pile of rubble at the Rana Plaza collapse...

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Update: Two North Korean sailors from missing ship turn up dead in Japanese waters

The bodies of two North Korean sailors from the missing cargo ship Taegakbong turned up in separate locations in Japan, almost four months after the ship went missing in late December. The ship went...

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2 more bodies found from Savar rubbles

With the latest recovery, nine bodies have so far been unearthed since the rescuers started using heavy machinery. Savar police SI Saiful Islam said the bodies were recovered at around 9:30pm. He...

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Unclaimed bodies to be buried on Tuesday

Twenty nine unidentified bodies that were retrieved from the debris of collapsed Rana Plaza will be buried on Tuesday at Jurain graveyard. Their DNA samples have been collected. The bodies were kept...

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Migrant smugglers abandon boatloads of people at sea, according to Mexican Officials

The Mexican navy says it has detected a disturbing trend of migrant smugglers abandoning boatloads of people at sea off the coast of Baja California. The Navy says that each month it has been finding...

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Seven killed in US cargo plane crash at Afghan base

A US civilian cargo plane has crashed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, killing its seven crew, officials say. The plane came down shortly after take-off and crashed within the boundaries of the...

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Wreckage found in Manhattan was from 9/11 plane: Boeing

Boeing Co. said it was confident that a piece of aircraft, found wedged between two buildings in lower Manhattan recently, came from one of two airplanes that struck the Twin Towers on September 11,...

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Snake robot teams up with search-and-rescue dog in US

US researchers working on a snake-like robot have tested pairing it with a search-and-rescue dog. The engineers sent two dogs fitted with harnesses containing the robot into a simulated collapsed...

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Another body with N.K. photos found in Sea of Japan

The body of a man with a metal tube containing photos of late North Korean leaders was found drifting in the Sea of Japan off Akita Prefecture, the Japan Coast Guard said. The coast guard believes...

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Kisii unclaimed bodies pile up

The Kisii district public health officer has decried the high number of uncollected bodies at a mortuary. Hezron Omayio said the bodies have been have been at Kisii Level 5 Hospital mortuary for...

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Deadly earthquakes strike around the world

A series of deadly earthquakes have struck many countries around the world, including China, Mexico, and Iran, in the last few weeks resulting in hundreds of injuries and deaths. China is the most...

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Search the database: Every FEMA-declared disaster since 1953

How many flood disasters have hit Iowa in the past 50 years? Has New York ever suffered a damaging earthquake? Search a database of every FEMA-declared disaster since 1953. Sort by state, county / local...

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Police undecided over jurisdication over mid-sea collision

The collision between the fishing trawler and the Coast Guard vessel that left six persons missing on April 25 has thrown up a rather interesting question over the jurisdictional powers of the police....

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2 dead, 8 missing after freighter sinks off Greece

A cargo ship sank off southern Greece after colliding with another freighter Monday, leaving two Syrian seamen dead and eight others missing and spurring a large rescue operation, officials said. The...

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Despite rain, finding last body buried in landfill continues

Despite the difficulty brought by sudden heavy rains, rescuers of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) are working round the clock to retrieve the body of the remaining person buried...

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Search continues after fire, hope dims for Bangladesh survivors

Rescue workers in Bangladesh have given up hopes of finding any more survivors, after a fire delayed their efforts to dig into the rubble of a building that collapsed five days ago. Officials leading...

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Fire breaks out at collapsed factory in Bangladesh, 3 rescuers injured

A blaze broke out in the wreckage of a Bangladesh factory block Sunday, killing a woman whose 110-hour battle for survival had touched the nation following its worst industrial disaster, the country's...

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Three more fishermen's bodies found off Goa coast after mishap

The joint search operation by the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard today recovered three more bodies of fishermen who had drowned after their trawler was hit by a Coast Guard offshore patrol...

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4 Dead, 4 Missing in SW China's Landslide

A landslide in Bijie, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Saturday afternoon had killed three villagers and left five others missing by late Saturday, local authorities said. Eight villagers...

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Cranes called in at Bangladesh disaster site

Bangladesh rescue teams working at the site of a collapsed factory bloc have called in heavy-lifting equipment with hopes of finding more survivors fading, fire chief Ahmed Ali told AFP Sunday. "Apparently...

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Igbogun village motor accident: unidentified victims get mass burial

It was a day of outpouring of emotions, crying and wailing. Friends and family members of victims of the April 5 motor accident that occurred in Igbogui village in Ovia North East Local Government...

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Japan: Survivors of 3/11 tsunami disaster issue newspaper to pull people together

Iwate Prefecture—Disaster survivors who lost family members and friends in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami are publishing a newspaper to help others overcome their grief. The Inochi Shimbun (Newspaper...

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761 people still missing in Savar tragedy

Rescuers have come up with a list of 761 people who are still missing in the worst building collapse in the country. The list has been made as per information given by the relatives of those...

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Rescuers find 50 survivors in Bangladesh factory collapse

Rescuers found 50 people alive late Friday in the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory complex making Western brand clothes that caved in two days earlier, leaving over 300 workers dead. A total...

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20 killed, 25 injured as tractor plunges into gorge

At least 20 persons were killed and 25 injured, 12 of them seriously, when a tractor carrying a marriage party fell into a gorge in Rayagada district today, police said. The incident took place in...

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Airplane Debris Found Near World Trade Center Site

Land surveyors working just north of the former World Trade Center site have discovered a piece of an airplane’s landing gear, apparently from one of the two planes that crashed into the twin towers...

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Afghanistan bus accident: Taliban insurgents cause fiery collision that kills 45 passengers

A bus collided on Friday with the wreckage of a truck that had been attacked by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 45 people aboard the bus in a fiery crash, officials said. The...

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Grim Greek fate for Syrians fleeing civil war

For most people, it was yet another Aegean Sea tragedy in which a group of would-be migrants in a small boat drowned while trying to reach Greece. But for Husam Hashash, who lost his brother, his...

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Search and rescue operations for fishing vessel Sea Messiah

At about 4.30am on 25 April, a fishing vessel Sea Messiah collided with an unknown vessel off the Karwar coast. Whilst 23 out of 29 crew were rescued by other fishing vessels in vicinity, two bodies...

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Training local communities for air disaster rescue operations

Over the years, aviation stakeholders, particularly sundry experts, have tried to ensure that victims of air accident in Nigeria are responded to rapidly to enhance the survival rate. Despite these...

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Dozens found alive as Bangladesh tragedy toll hits 250

Dozens of workers were found alive on Thursday as they huddled in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory bloc in Bangladesh, a rare success for rescuers who have pulled out 250 bodies. In an...

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Thirty-eight feared dead in Russian psychiatric hospital fire

A fire raged through a psychiatric hospital north of Moscow on Friday and 38 people were feared dead, Russian officials and media reports said. There were believed to have been 41 people in the building...

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