24 Perish In Ghana Auto Crash

Twenty-four travellers died yesterday dawn on the spot at Dagomba Line near Buipe, the Central Gonja District capital, when a 22-seater sprinter passenger bus with registration number AS 3981-12...

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Limpopo floods death toll rising: 10 dead, 4 missing after heavy rains

At least 10 people have died as a result of the torrential rains that fell in Limpopo over the past few days. Six of the victims died in the Vhembe region, far north of the province, and four died...

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Death toll hits 5 in SW China coal mine accident

The death toll in a Friday coal mine accident in southwest China's Guizhou province rose to five Monday afternoon following the discovery of two more bodies. Eighteen people were working underground...

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Child body parts sold at sh0.5m, says report

He was a boda boda rider, and not earning much. Because he wanted to make more money, he resorted to kidnapping people, including children. “I was doing it for tycoons who came from Kampala and...

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Horn migrants use new, more dangerous, routes through Malawi

On 20 June 2012, a group of undocumented Ethiopian migrants boarded a boat on the shores of Lake Malawi and headed southwards. A few minutes after departing, the overloaded boat sank, drowning 49 of...

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Five die in blast at Zimbabwe healer's house

Five people including a traditional healer died in a mysterious blast in Zengeza 2, Chitungwiza yesterday afternoon. While the bodies seemed to have been burnt, there was no fire from the blast, which...

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Ezu River: 18 bodies evacuated as autopsy begins today

Eighteen decomposed bodies evacuated from Ezu River on the border town of Amansea, between Enugu and Anambra states, will today be subjected to autopsy to be jointly carried out by Anambra and Enugu...

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Matale mass grave traced to 1987-89; Skeletal remains of 79 persons exhumed

Human skeletal remains excavated from a mass grave near the Matale Hospital have been preliminary dated to 1987-89 period, when over 60,000 insurgents perished in extra judicial killings by the...

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Death toll from Jakarta flooding rises to 26

Widespread flooding in the Indonesian capital over the last week has killed 26 people, police said Monday, with most of the deaths caused by electrocution and drowning. People sit on an inflatable...

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Six die in Limpopo floods

Six people have died after the Limpopo river burst its banks, the provincial co-operative governance department said on Monday. "Rescue operations in the area have been completed. On the record...

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