Laos recovers crashed plane black boxes

Search teams on Thursday recovered the flight data recorders of a Lao Airlines plane that plunged into the Mekong River in bad weather killing all 49 people on board, officials said. The black...

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Bodies of 92 migrants who died of thirst found in Niger desert (update)

The bodies of 92 migrants, most of them women and children, have been found in northern Niger after their vehicles broke down attempting to cross the vast Sahara desert, authorities said today. The...

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Finding the millions of missing people across the world

The International Commission on Missing Persons is hosting a three day conference called “The Missing – an Agenda for the Future” at the Hague. The core strategy of the conference is to set out...

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Lebanese child boat victim identified

The body of a child from the northern city of Akkar has been identified among the victims from the tragic boat accident last month in Indonesia, the National News Agency reported Wednesday. The...

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Families of Andhra bus accident victims asked to give samples for DNA test

Families of victims of the Mahbubnagar bus accident have been asked to submit samples for DNA testing at the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) in Hyderabad. The charred remains...

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21 perish in Chisumbanje road accident

Twenty-one people have been killed in a road accident at the 20 kilometre-peg along the Tanganda-Chisumbanje road towards Middle Sabi. Most of the most of the dead were burnt beyond recognition. Witnesses...

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DNA camp for kin of people missing in Uttarakhand

The state government plans to hold a DNA sampling camp for relatives of the 165 residents of the state who went missing in the flash flood in Uttarakhand this monsoon, indicated rehabilitation minister...

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100 Egyptian refugees missing in Libya desert

It has been reported that as many as 100 Egyptian refugees have gone missing in the Libyan desert after fleeing the chaos in their country following this summer’s military coup. Libya is still suffering...

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Delhi: 8 bodies found every day, most unidentified

At least eight bodies are found in the city every day and many of them remain unidentified and unclaimed. As many as 2,113 unidentified bodies were found till September 30 in the Capital, official...

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Aftershocks in Bohol breach 3,000 mark; Death toll 218

Two weeks after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake jolted Central Visayas, the number of aftershocks in Bohol has now breached the 3,000 mark while death toll continues to rise, reaching 218. As of 6:00...

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Slow justice for Peru's disappeared

On Sundays Rubén Villanueva Toro liked to escape the small village of Buena Vista nestled high in the Andean mountains where he was a school principal. On the afternoon of March 30, 1990, he was in...

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Spain: Suspected methane gas leak kills six miners, ten trapped

A methane gas leak at a coalmine in northern Spain has been blamed for the deaths of six miners. The deaths occurred at the Santa Lucia mine near the town of Pola de Gordon, according to the 112...

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Niger migrants 'die of thirst' crossing the Sahara

Dozens of people traversing the Sahara desert on their way to Europe are feared to have died of thirst in Niger, officials say. Five bodies have been found, while a further 35 are missing after...

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May 29, 1944: WWII plane slammed into Mt. Whymper hillside

It was a lonely place to die, out on a jagged hillside near Mt. Whymper, at the headwaters of the Nanaimo river. This was where a B-25 Mitchell bomber ended its voyage on May 29, 1944. It had set...

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The Great Storm of 1987: How the 'hurricane' claimed 18 lives

Today's storm was predicted to be the worst since the Great Storm of 1987, which battered England and Wales leaving 18 people dead and causing £1.5billion worth of damage to the economy. In the...

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New mass graves raise hope for the missing in Bosnia

Suad Zeric stares expectantly at a corpse exhumed from a gaping, freshly-dug hole where hundreds of Muslims and Croats massacred in the Bosnian war were tossed two decades ago. The body, surrounded...

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Thai disaster Victim Identification unit helped identify bodies after the Lao Airlines plane crash in the Mekong River

The Disaster Victim Identification unit was part of an international contingent which helped identify bodies after the Lao Airlines plane crash in the Mekong River. Sifting through severed body...

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Death toll in Cape Coast-Yamoransa road accident increases to 16

One more person is reported dead in the fatal accident on the Cape Coast- Yamoransa road bringing the death toll to 16. All fifteen passengers in an urvan bus died on the spot, Saturday night when...

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The European Parliament recommends fact-finding mission to detect remains of mass graves in Western Sahara

The European Parliament has conducted an amendment to Mr. Tannock’s report on the human rights situation in Western Sahara and the Sahel, calling to send an international mission to study and discover...

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Death toll for 7.2 magnitude Central Visayas earthquake now at 215

The death toll for the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked Central Visayas last October 15 has now climbed to 215, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Sunday....

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Remains of 2 South Korean victims in Laos plane crash repatriated

The remains of two South Korean victims who were killed in a Lao plane crash were brought home on Saturday, government and airport officials said. The French-made ATR-72 jet crashed into the Mekong...

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Odisha cyclone death toll rises to 60

Authorities yesterday confirmed seven more deaths in flood-related incidents in Odisha, taking the toll due to cyclone Phailin and subsequent floods in the state to 60. The districts of Nayagarh,...

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Central Visayas quake death toll rises to 213

Seven more bodies were found in the rubble following a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Central Visayas last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council said. This brought to 213...

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Nine killed, 3 injured in Narok accident

Nine people died on the spot and other three critically injured after the vehicles they were travelling in involved in a road accident in Narok County. The accident happened at Pinyiny area along...

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Mass grave discovered in Kashmir

A human rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir Thursday claimed to have discovered mass graves in which more than 130 unidentified bodies have been buried. Two mass graves containing nearly...

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Memorial for 60th anniversary of Arbroath's lifeboat disaster

One of the darkest days in Arbroath’s history is set to be remembered next weekend on the 60th anniversary of the town’s lifeboat disaster. Next Sunday (October 27) will mark the milestone, which...

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Death toll in Bohol quake breaches 200 mark

The death toll from the powerful earthquake that hit Central Visayas has breached the 200 mark, as rescuers recovered three more bodies from the rubble, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...

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Remains found at Costa Concordia shipwreck identified as missing Italian woman Maria Trecarichi

Human remains found at the wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia belong to a female Italian passenger, one of two victims still missing after the 2012 tragedy, the prosecutor investigating the disaster...

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268 victims’ remains found in Bosnia mass grave

The Bosnian prosecution said on Thursday that the complete remains of 200 people and the incomplete remains of 68 more, as well as some of their personal belongings, had been found at a depth of ten...

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Indonesia: 33 Lebanese migrant boat victims identified

The bodies of 33 Lebanese who drowned off the Indonesian coast in a tragic boat accident last month have been identified following DNA analysis, the National News Agency reported Thursday. A boat...

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21 killed, 19 injured when chartered bus plunges into roadside ravine in Lampang

A chartered bus taking merit makers back home from a temple plunged into a roadside ravine Sunday night, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others. Police said the accident happened at 7 pm on the...

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Search for two Concordia missing might resume in drydock pending ID of found remains

The search for the remains of two people still missing from the Costa Concordia shipwreck has been completed, the disaster commissioner's office said in a note Wednesday. The crash off Giglio Island...

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Kenya: Beef mystery in 'body parts' at Westgate Mall

Forensic investigators analyzing ten 'body parts' recovered from the rubble of the collapsed Westgate Mall have discovered that some of the samples are beef. The body parts were collected by police...

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Search team recovers body of last Thai air crash victim

The last Thai victim among those who perished in the Lao Airlines plane crash last week has now been recovered and identified, a senior Thai Foreign Ministry official said yesterday. The fifth victim...

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Shankill Road bomb atrocity remembered

The Shankill Road bombing was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 23 October 1993 and is one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The IRA...

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