9 dead, 9 missing in Lopez's Leyte power plant landslide

Nine are confirmed dead and nine are missing in a landslide that hit the Leyte geothermal power plant of the Lopez Group on Friday, March 1. In a statement on Friday afternoon, March 1, Energy Development...

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Memorial: Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, 1943

Seventy years ago this weekend, 173 people died and 90 were injured on the staircase of Bethnal Green Tube station in the worst civilian disaster of the Second World War. Yet no bombs were dropped...

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Seven burnt to death in ambulance

An ambulance carrying a corpse and seven other persons ran into a bridge at Agona Bobikuma in the Central Region and caught fire, information reaching Adom News indicates. All seven persons onboard...

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Fight for justice: the Bugaled Breizh disaster

Nine years after their loved ones perished on board a trawler in a suspected submarine accident, the families of the dead sailors continue their campaign for justice. The French vessel the Bugaled Breizh sank claiming the lives of all five sailors on January 15, 2004, about 14 nautical miles (26 km) southwest of Lizard Point, Cornwall. The grieving families were due to arrive in Cornwall today to show a film of the disaster made by Jacques Losay who is a relative of one of the lost sailors. Details of when and where the film (The silent killer),will be shown this month have yet to be confirmed. Exactly how the tragedy happened has never been fully established. However, many believe the trawler was pulled under the waves after a submarine accidentally snagged its nets. A specific submarine could not be identified because at the time of the incident there were a number in the area. The ship briefly radioed it was sinking and...

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Hope fades of recovering New Zealand mine blast victim’s body

The family of New Zealand mine blast victim Malcolm Campbell have finally given up hope that they will ever recover his body. Malcolm (25), from St Andrews, died when a series of underground explosions...

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Death toll in market fire rises to 20

A 48-year-old person, injured in the Surya Sen Market blaze on Wednesday, died at the NRS Hospital on Friday morning taking the death toll to 20. Meanwhile, the three agencies involved in the rescue-probe...

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36 Mwingi bus victims buried in mass grave

Thirty–six killed in the Wednesday morning Mwingi town bus accident were buried in the afternoon in a mass grave at the Muslim Cemetery in town. “Three others were taken by their relatives, who...

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FBI artists craft more busts to try to ID the dead

One man had a laminated card that said "Protect the Traveler." Another wore a jogging shirt with the words "Snake Creek." Both came to a lonely end three decades ago in Chesapeake, their remains...

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8 die, 9 missing as restaurant boat sinks in Baghdad river

A crowded floating restaurant loaded with dozens of guests sank in the Tigris River in central Baghdad late yesterday, leaving at least eight people dead and several others missing, according to officials....

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Six of the nine Hong Kong victims in the hot-air balloon crash in Luxor identified

Six of the nine Hong Kong victims in the hot-air balloon crash in Luxor have been identified by relatives but the remaining three are too badly disfigured and will need forensic or DNA tests. Chief...

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