Malaysia: 15 missing every day

It is a startling figure: An average of 15 people went missing every day last year, Malaysian police records showed. Even more alarmingly, nearly a quarter of them are Malay girls aged 13 to 17....

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Rescuers Find Body in Mexico Oil Company Blast

Mexico's state-owned oil company says rescuers have found another body amid the rubble of a headquarters building damaged by a still-unexplained blast. The find raises the death toll of Thursday's...

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Mexico blast victims' bodies handed over to families

The bodies of the victims of a blast at the headquarters of Mexican oil company Pemex have been handed to their relatives. Thirty-three people died in Thursday's explosion in Mexico City. Hundreds...

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Eight dead in Pakistan building collapse

At least eight workers died and another 20 were trapped Sunday when the roof of a warehouse collapsed in Lahore, Pakistan, Geo News reported. Rescue workers have removed eight people from the rubble...

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Authorities find 22 corpses in central Colombia mass grave

Authorities said Sunday they have found a mass grave in central Colombia containing 22 remains of presumed members of neo-paramilitary organization "Los Urabeños." The mass grave was found in Tauramena,...

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Papua New Guinea ferry disaster anniversary

On the first anniversary of Papua New Guinea's worst maritime disaster, families of the victims say they are still looking for answers. At least 140 people died when the Rabaul Queen passenger ferry...

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DVI: Victim Affairs Office to open in Sharjah

The only Arab member of Interpol’s Disaster Victim Identification Standing Committee, the Abu Dhabi Police, has announced plans to open a Victim Affairs Office in Sharjah. “The Victim Affairs Office...

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Philippine floods a man-made disaster

Deadly floods that have swamped nearly all of the Philippine capital are less a natural disaster and more the result of poor planning, lax enforcement and political self-interest, experts say. Damaged...

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18 dead, 34 injured in NW China bus crash

Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 34 others injured in a bus accident in Gansu Province after more bodies were recovered from the wreckage, government sources said Saturday. Reporters...

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Chinese fireworks truck explosion destroys bridge

Four people have been arrested a day after at least 11 died when a lorry loaded with fireworks for the Chinese New Year exploded, causing a section of flyover to collapse. Vehicles plummeted about...

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Dedicated unit for tracing missing persons in Southern Range, India

A separate and dedicated unit would be establishing to trace missing persons in the entire Southern Range of the state police department. The Southern Range comprises Mysore, Mandya, Chamarajanagara,...

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142 Skeletons In Matale Mass Grave

The total number of human skeletal remains unearthed from a mass grave behind the Matale Hospital has risen to 142 since the excavation started in early November last year. The skeletal remains...

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A church of bones

What can be a more sobering reminder of the fragility of human life and its impermanence than an ossuary? A church made up of human bones? I am in Bohemia, just on the outskirts of that beautiful,...

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Mexico Still Seeking Answers Days After Deadly Pemex Blast

The search for the cause of a blast that destroyed three floors of a building at Petroleos Mexicanos’s headquarters and killed at least 34 people entered a fourth day, as investigators toiled ahead...

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A decade later, memories of Rhode Island nightclub fire still vivid

Time has taken its toll on the makeshift memorial set up a decade ago to recognize the 100 people killed in the Feb. 20, 2003, inferno at The Station nightclub on Route 3. Nobody expected the memorial...

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Released photos appear to show Korean victims of past Japanese massacre as retaliation for Great Kanto earthquake

A South Korean historian on Sunday released photos apparently showing Korean victims of a Japanese massacre following a devastating earthquake nine decades ago. The release comes just a few days...

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UAE: Disaster Victim Identification Conference

The UAE will play host to the international conference on Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) today. The two-day Coordinated Approach to Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Conference Middle East...

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Brazil nigthclub fire claims another victim

State health officials say a 22-year-old man injured in last week's deadly nightclub fire in southern Brazil has died. The Rio Grande do Sul Health Secretariat says Bruno Portella Fricks died...

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Civil rights group: Texas authorities fail to do part identifying remains of undocumented immigrants

A civil-rights group is preparing to pressure Texas agencies that don’t take DNA samples from the unidentified remains of undocumented immigrants, saying those agencies aren’t following state law....

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Anniversary of Black Saturday, Australia's worst natural disaster

Thursday marks the fourth anniversary of Black Saturday, Australia's worst natural disaster in a century. In the weeks and months following the event, Victoria's forensic detectives made incredible...

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