Official says stability behind cremations of landslide victims

An official from Zhenxiong county, Yunnan Province, where a landslide recently claimed 46 lives, admitted on Wednesday that it was partially for stability's sake that the county government hastily...

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Landslide Survivors Demand Investigation of Mine’s Role

Relief efforts continue in Yunnan, where a remote village was decimated by a landslide last Friday. 46 people died, including 19 children. China Daily reported that 29 of the victims were from a single...

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Illegal sale of dead bodies at city hospitals

The number of unclaimed and unidentified dead bodies lying in the government hospital mortuaries’ is increasing every year by almost 10 per cent. According to the ‘missing people’ complaints filed...

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Arizona: Naming the dead from the desert

It's the job of a forensics team in Arizona to identify the bodies of migrants found in the desert. Anthropologist Robin Reineke describes how she pieces together the sad jigsaw puzzle of personal...

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Mastung bombing: Funerals offered for 15 victims

The Shia community of Rawalpindi offered funeral prayers on Wednesday for 12 persons killed in the Mastung terrorist attack after their identities were determined through DNA testing a day earlier....

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String of bomb blasts in Iraq kill at least 22, mostly Shiite pilgrims

Insurgents unleashed a string of bomb attacks mainly targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims across Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 22 people and extending a wave of deadly bloodshed into a second day....

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Truck hits bus; 6 dead, 57 hurt

Six people were killed and 57 others were injured, many of them critically, when a trailer truck rammed a passenger bus in the City of Naga Wednesday afternoon. Traffic investigators of the Naga...

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Medical Examiner Trying to ID Four Bodies

Right now authorities are working at least 140 cases across Virginia where bodies found cannot be identified. Wednesday, authorities put faces on four of these cases and then took their work to the...

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Bus crash kills 14 in Yobe

Fourteen people have been killed and four others seriously injured when their bus crashed into a truck and caught fire in northern Nigeria, a road safety official says. "At around 6:30 am (1630 AEST)...

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