Examiners try to ID victims in Casa Grande plane crash

Medical examiners on Thursday were working to identify at least two people who died after a small plane crashed near the runway at Casa Grande Municipal Airport on Wednesday morning. It is still...

continue reading

Denied closure, families of Baldia factory fire victims agree to mass burial

Tired of waiting for the remains of their loved ones to be identified, families of this subset of Baldia fire victims have agreed to the government’s proposal to hold a mass burial for charred corpses...

continue reading

Man’s body unidentified for two years

On the evening of Feb. 21, 2011, a motorist travelling through a small town north of Trois-Rivières called 911 to report a fire in a wooded area along Highway 155. When firefighters arrived on the...

continue reading

Police remains recovered in Baragoi

Police in Baragoi have recovered bones believed to be the remains of one of the three missing police officers who were murdered in the bungled operation that left more than 40 officers dead last November....

continue reading

More bodies identified in Henan bridge collapse

The official death toll from the fatal Yichang bridge collapse last week has risen to 13 people, according to on-site authorities heading rescue and investigation efforts. It is the second time this...

continue reading

Police say at least 51 killed in Zambia road accident

At least 51 people died on Thursday when a bus and a truck collided about 100 km (60 miles) north of Zambian capital Lusaka, police said. Police spokeswoman Elizabeth Kanjela said the death toll...

continue reading

Solomon Islands tsunami; death toll rising

Aid workers struggled to reach remote villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday as the death toll rose from a tsunami triggered by a powerful undersea earthquake. At least nine people were killed...

continue reading

33 families criticize the search for the disappeared from the Araguaia massacre [translated]

Relatives of disappeared politicians want to reduce the number of soldiers in the group created by the government to locate and collect the bodies of guerrillas who worked in the Araguaia Guerrilla....

continue reading

Tokyo Police Introduce Trucks for Autopsy on Disaster Victims

The Metropolitan Police Department of Tokyo has introduced two large trucks to be used for autopsies in case of disasters such as a powerful earthquake hitting the Japanese capital, informed sources...

continue reading