Farm workers killed in minibus accident in Turkey

Ten people were killed and 13 injured when a minibus carrying female farm workers in Turkey rolled over and fell into a creek, police said. The accident took place Wednesday afternoon in the Adiyaman...

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Tragedy in Bayelsa: 20 feared killed in auto crash

NO fewer than 20 persons were reported dead in a motor accident in Amassoma, Yenagoa, on Wednesday. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the 20 persons were mostly part-time students of the state-owned...

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15 die in Sindhupalchowk bus crash

A bus headed for Kathmandu from Bhotang of Sindhupalchowk district crashed at Thangpalkot-1 on Wednesday morning, killing 15 passengers and injuring 30 others. The bus, carrying at least 55 passengers,...

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Bodies of More Than 200 Stalinist Purge Victims Discovered

The remains of 208 people believed to have been victims of the Stalinist purges have been discovered by a search team near Voronezh, Interfax reported Friday. Members of the Don Search Team, who...

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With few clues, Afghan pathologists try to put names to torture victims

When the mortal remains of a man named Nawab were brought to what is, in effect, the Kabul C.S.I. on April 30, they all fit easily into a wooden crate small enough to carry under one arm. Afghan...

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Locals first robbed, then helped victims

br> The Mendhwan accident, which claimed 14 lives, including that of the driver of the container which rammed into an oncoming luxury bus on Wednesday, has brought to light a chilling demonstration...

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Salvage mission at Mt Kanchanjungha called off

The search for the five climbers who went missing on Mt Kanchanjungha since May 20 and are presumed dead has been called off Thursday. The families of the missing climbers including two Nepalis and...

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Maharashtra to put info about missing children on internet

The state will now maintain an online database of missing children which would not only help it track them but would also enable it to monitor child trafficking into the state. Parents of missing children...

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1 Dead, a dozen missing in Borneo river shipwreck

At least one person has been found dead and a dozen others remain missing after an overloaded passenger ferry sank in a river in the Malaysian portion of the island of Borneo, police said Wednesday....

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Divers recover 10 bodies from Nigeria ship sinking

A contractor for Chevron Corp. in Nigeria says divers have recovered the bodies of 10 sailors who drowned when their ship sank off the coast. The Jascon-4 capsized early on Sunday due to “heavy...

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10 killed in Balangir mishap

As many as 10 persons, including two children and two women, were killed and seven of a wedding party were injured in an accident near Khaprakhol in Patnagarh sub-division of Balangir district on Thursday...

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Task of Identifying Factories’ Dead Overwhelms Bangladeshi Lab

Inside a small government laboratory here, there are about 300 test tubes, each labeled with masking tape and containing an extracted tooth or a shard of bone. Day and night, dozens of these tubes...

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Grim Task of Identifying Factories’ Dead Overwhelms Bangladeshi Lab

Inside a small government laboratory here, there are about 300 test tubes, each labeled with masking tape and containing an extracted tooth or a shard of bone. Day and night, dozens of these tubes...

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Death toll reaches 524 in Andhra Pradesh heat wave

The death toll in the heat wave that continues to grip Andhra Pradesh mounted to 524, officials said on Sunday. The commissioner disaster management, who had on Saturday put the toll at 294 since...

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Mexico bus accident: 16 dead, 19 injured

Mexican authorities say a bus apparently went out of control after a blowout and turned over, killing 16 people in central Hidalgo state. State attorney general’s spokesman Fernando Hidalgo says...

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Etah bus mishap: 19 bodies found, compensation announced

[Update]Nineteen people were confirmed dead after a bus from Farukkhabad to New Delhi fell into a canal in Etah late Sunday, police said Monday. The accident took place 265 km from Lucknow. While...

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Bus dives into canal in Etah, more than 24 feared dead

Over two dozen people are believed to have lost their lives as the bus in which they were travelling from Farukkhabad to New Delhi fell into a canal in Etah late on Sunday, the police said on Monday....

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India: betting on the dead is a tradition

Bizarre though it may sound, people are making a quick buck by betting on the dead. Betting and fixing, apparently, is not restricted to cricket alone and in Varanasi’s famous Manikarnika Ghat, the...

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Bangladesh building collapse death rises to 1,129

The death toll from the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory complex has risen to 1,129 after two more injured workers died a month after the disaster, officials said on Sunday. Senior government...

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DNA may help military end era of unknown soldiers

More than 83,000 service members lost since the beginning of World War II remain missing, according to the Defense Department. Many lie in forgotten battlefield graves and beneath memorials of solemn...

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Last inspection: precise ritual of dressing nation’s war dead

The soldier bent to his work, careful as a diamond cutter. He carried no weapon or rucksack, just a small plastic ruler, which he used to align a name plate, just so, atop the breast pocket of an Army...

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40 exhumed bodies of Ivorian crisis victims ready for collection

The Ivorian Government has said 40 exhumed bodies of victims of the country’s post-election violence were ready for collection and final burial by their families. Justice Minister Gnenema Coulibaly,...

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Zanzibar honours victims of marine disaster

PLANS are underway to construct a fence to protect the graveyard, where people who died in 2011 and 2012 marine accidents lie, the Zanzibar State Minister Mr Mohammed Aboud Mohammed has said. “The...

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11 people killed as passenger bus overturns on Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw highway in Myanmar

At least 11 people were killed and 15 others injured on Saturday when a a passenger bus overturned on Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw highway in Myanmar due to overshoot, state-run radio reported. With about...

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Landslide Kills 7, Injures 12 in Northwest China

Seven people died and 12 others were injured after a landslide buried a dormitory building in Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Saturday morning,Seven people died and 12 others were injured after...

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5 climbers feared dead on world's third-highest peak in Nepal

Five men who disappeared earlier this week trying to climb the world’s third-highest mountain are feared dead, searchers leading the recovery effort in Nepal said on Friday, saying few could survive...

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Pakistan school bus fire kills 16 children

At least 16 children and their teacher have been killed when their school bus caught fire in eastern Pakistan, police say. At least seven more children were taken to hospital after the incident on...

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Python hunter finds mystery gold pendant deep in the Florida everglades... but is it from a tragic plane crash?

A man who was searching for pythons discovered a piece of actual treasure instead. Mark Rubenstein was taking part in the Florida state-wide python killing competition when he discovered a gold pendant...

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Long wait for relatives a month after Bangladesh disaster

Relatives said Friday they were still waiting for news of their missing loved ones, as many gathered to mark one month since Bangladesh's worst industrial tragedy. A government official said on Friday...

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Oklahoma officials identify all tornado victims

The death toll from this week’s monster tornado in Oklahoma stands at 24, with all victims positively identified. The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office says 10 of those who died were children, including...

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Philippines cemetery provides Manila's poor a place to live among the dead

Every morning, Alberto Lagarda Evangelista, 71, leaves the two-storey, lemon-yellow home he has lived in for the past decade and walks to work at the cemetery next door. As a caretaker of about 20...

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BGMEA evades paying wages of deceased collapse victims

The garment factory owners have said they would not pay the wages of the dead victims of the Savar Rana Plaza collapse. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has claimed...

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5 officers killed in helicopter accident in Venezuela

Five officers from Venezuela's Bolivarian National Police (PNB), members of the crew of a police helicopter, were killed Thursday when their aircraft crashed in western Caracas during an operation...

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Nigeria: Ancient tree tragedy in Imo State

[Updated: see post] This is not the best of times for Imo State and its people given the harvest of tragedies recorded in the state recently. The most recent is the ancient ancestral tree that fell...

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