Two months on, unidentified body lies preserved at JJ morgue

Two months after the Babu Genu building collapse in the Dockyard Road area, the body of an unidentified male continues to remain in the cold preservation unit of the state-run JJ hospital's morgue....

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Nine killed after roof collapses at Chinese factory under tons of heavy snow

Nine people have been killed in China after a factory roof collapsed under tons of fresh snow. China's state news agency Xinhua said the accident in the country's northeast Heilongjiang Province...

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Boat with Haitian migrants capsize in Bahamas; up to 30 feared dead

A sailboat passing through the southern Bahamas islands with about 150 Haitian migrants on board capsized after running aground, killing up to 30 people and leaving the rest clinging to the vessel...

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Search teams in Tacloban in need of K-9 units

Search and retrieval teams in typhoon-devastated Tacloban City are in need of more K-9 units as the search for bodies feared buried under the rubble has yet to be finished. Bureau of Fire Protection...

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Winter halts digging at Bosnia's largest mass grave

Forensic experts will quit exhumations during the winter at a mass grave in northwestern Bosnia believed to be the largest found so far from the Bosnian 1992-95 war. The remains of 430 people have...

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57 more bodies recovered in Tacloban

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has recovered 57 more cadavers in this city on Sunday, 17 days after super typhoon "Yolanda" (international code name: Haiyan) struck Eastern Visayas provinces....

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Mexico: Tally of bodies exhumed from clandestine grave grows to 42

The number of exhumed bodies now stands at 42 -- and the digging continues at the latest clandestine mass grave to be discovered on Mexican soil. This month, Mexican authorities declared that they...

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10 dead, 16 missing after cargo ships sink off east China

Ten bodies were recovered Monday and more than a dozen people remained missing after two cargo vessels sank off east China in two separate accidents, rescue workers said on Tuesday, with officials...

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On 24th of every month, they mourn

November 24 marks one year of the terrible fire at Tazreen Fashions, a garment factory in Nischintapur area of Ashulia, and seven months into the deadly collapse of Rana Plaza at Savar that took place...

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Death toll from China oil pipeline blast rises to 52, 11 missing

The death toll from Friday's oil pipeline blasts in east China's Shandong Province rose to 52 as of 1pm today after four more bodies were found at the scene, rescuers said. Reports and investigations...

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Latvia store collapse: Deaths rise as Riga rescue continues

Rescue workers pulled bodies from the ruins of a collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga on Friday as the death toll rose to 51 in the Baltic state's worst disaster in decades. Cranes lifted...

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Typhoon Haiyan death toll jumps to 5,235 in Philippines

The death toll from this month's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has spiked to 5,235, a national agency reported early Saturday. That figure -- posted at 6 a.m. (5 p.m. ET Friday) on the National...

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Relatives call mobiles to find missing in Latvia

Rescuers have been calling for silence at the scene of a collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga as they try to locate victims by calling their mobile phones. At least 45 people have died...

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INTERPOL experts assist to identify typhoon victims

A group of forensic experts from the International Police (Interpol) will fly to Tacloban City this weekend to assist local authorities in identifying the remains of those who died during the onslaught...

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US retrieval team finds more bodies in Tacloban

The team that helped in the search and retrieval of victims in the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the US was among those who retrieved 84 more bodies in typhoon-devastated...

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Oil pipeline blasts in eastern China kill 35

Leaked oil from a ruptured pipeline in an eastern Chinese port city exploded Friday, killing at least 35 people, injuring 166 and contaminating the sea in one the country's worst industrial accidents...

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Latvia store collapse: Deaths rise as Riga rescue continues

At least 45 people have died after the roof of a supermarket collapsed in the Latvian capital Riga. Rescue efforts continued through the night and police have launched a criminal investigation. Three...

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Nazi U-boat sunk during Second World War is discovered by divers off of Indonesia - complete with skeletons of its doomed crew

Divers off the coast of Indonesia have discovered the wreck of a WW2 Nazi U-Boat - complete with the skeletons of its lost crew aboard. Initial researches show it to be U-168, a hunter-killer of...

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12 gold miners dead in Guinea after collapse

Residents in a mining town in northern Guinea say at least a dozen people are dead after a landslide in the area where they were searching for gold. Mamadou Diallo, who lives in the town of Siguiri,...

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Washington D.C. sees increase in unclaimed remains

A growing number of Washington DC-area families are failing to show up to claim loved ones who’ve passed away, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the News4 I-Team....

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Typhoon Haiyan: Conflicting death toll, forensic process continues

The death toll from Super Typhoon “Yolanda” continued to mount on Wednesday as the group tasked with collecting cadavers from Leyte reported that they found 116 more dead bodies from various areas,...

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No visual ID possible in Kazan plane crash

An official in Russia's Investigative Committee said "not a single body fit for identification by relatives was discovered" at the scene of an airplane crash at the airport in Kazan, Tatarstan. Dmitry...

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Interpol forensic team to help identify cadavers in Tacloban

A team of forensic experts from the International Police (Interpol) is set to fly to the typhoon-battered Tacloban City this weekend to help local authorities in identifying the decomposing bodies...

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15 killed, seven injured as vehicle falls into gorge

Fifteen persons were killed and seven seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in fell into a deep gorge in Pithoragarh district early this morning. The mishap occurred at Tauldhar,...

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Don't resort to rapid mass burials, ICRC says

The international Red Cross released a manual on how to deal with dead bodies on Wednesday, knocking down the notion that corpses are a huge health hazard as the death toll from Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)...

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European database of unidentified bodies urged

A Europe-wide database of unidentified bodies should be established, the UK Missing Persons Bureau says. Joe Apps, who heads up the bureau, told BBC News it would help families who were searching...

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Mexico mass graves: Dozens of dead found

Two mass graves have been discovered in Mexico - bringing the number of bodies unearthed over the past 10 days to 39. The remains of eight people - including a child - were found in the graves near...

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How to handle corpses during disasters

In the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda (international codename Haiyan), the streets of badly battered areas were filled not only with fallen trees and collapsed houses and buildings, but also with bodies...

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Six killed as private plane crashes in central France

A small plane crashed Tuesday in France's central Burgundy region, killing six people, officials said. The accident occurred a little after 11:00 am (10:00 GMT) near the village of Mouffy, firefighters...

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Sardinia hit by cyclone and flooding, at least 16 killed

At least 16 people have been killed in flooding prompted by a cyclone and heavy rain that swept through the Italian island of Sardinia. A number of people are reported missing after rivers burst...

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Russian authorities continue looking for bodies in plane wreckage

The president of the Russian republic of Tatarstan declared Monday a day of mourning as crews continued to look for bodies in the wreckage of a Russian jetliner that crashed on landing a day earlier....

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7 dead after minibus plunges into ravine

A minibus transporting 13 tourists, believed to be Chinese, plunged into a 15-meter-deep ravine Monday after experiencing engine trouble on the narrow, treacherous road at Jl. Pantai Suluban, Pecatu...

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Typhoon Haiyan: Bodies ripped from graves

Skulls lie on tombstones and a hand reaches out from a grave at a cemetery in the eastern Philippines, after a typhoon so powerful it pulled the dead from the earth. Shell-shocked survivors speak...

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Why are some victims more important than others?

A headline in the Daily Mail last week read: 'Two Americans among 1,700 killed in Philippines Typhoon". An estimated 2,000 Filipinos have perished, but it's the loss of two western lives that may...

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Forensic team identifies Tacloban dead

Three pathologists struggled yesterday to identify dozens of fast-decomposing bodies at a mass grave, victims of the strongest typhoon ever recorded, illustrating the scale of the task the Philippines...

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