Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Floating Bodies And Our Identification System

January 29

Forty bodies were found floating in Amansea community, along the border of Anambra and Enugu State. The unidentified bodies have been perceived by many as victims of extra judicial killings by government...

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DNA of 37 Tazreen fire victims matches with their family members

January 29

DNA test results of 37 Tazreen fire victims matched with the samples collected from their family members two months after the devastating fire that took place on November 24 last, a top official of...

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Ezu River - 15 Bodies Exhumed for Autopsy

January 29

Fifteen of the initial 18 bodies recovered from Ezu River in Anambra State were yesterday exhumed by a team of pathologists from the office of the Inspector General of Police and the Nnamdi Azikiwe...

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Bodies of plane crash victims to be delivered to Kalkaman morgue

January 29

The bodies of the victims of the plane crash near Almaty will be placed in Kalkaman morgue, Yuriy Ilyin, head of Almaty mobilization preparedness, civil defense, prevention and elimination of accidents...

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Eerie sounds of cell phones amid disaster adds to first-responder toll

January 29

The dead can't speak. Their cell phones do. And, for police, firefighters and paramedics, the incessant chirping, bleating and incongruously cheerful boom box beats of victims' cell phones comprise...

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5 dead in central China oil tank blast

January 29

The bodies of four missing people have been found after an oil storage tank exploded in central China's Hunan Province on Monday, taking the death toll to five, local authorities said. The blast...

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Update: More bodies of missing Mexican band members found in well

January 29

The Colombian-style music group was playing at a ranch in northern Mexico when at least 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was being held and forced them and several crew members...

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Coal mine gas explosion kills eight miners

January 29

At least eight coalmine workers were killed and two others wounded when an explosion took place in a private company’s coal mine in Dukki tehsil of Loralai district, some 180 kilometers away from...

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Passenger plane crashes near Kazakh city of Almaty

January 29

A passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan's commercial capital of Almaty on Tuesday, killing all 22 people on board, an emergency services official said. The Canadian-built Bombardier...

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Rescuers find 3 more bodies in West Sumatra, bringing death from landslides in Indonesia to 19

January 29

A government official says rescuers have found three more bodies, bringing the death toll from a landslide in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra to 14, including four children. That raises the...

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