DR Congo 'plane crash' in Goma, many passengers killed

A plane has crashed in Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, witnesses say. A Fokker airplane of the private airline CAA was carrying 40 people and only four people survived,...

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6th body found in Leyte landslide area

Searchers on Sunday night recovered a sixth body from the landslide-hit area inside the Energy Development Corp. (EDC) complex in Kananga town in Leyte. The decomposing body of worker Marlon Boanghog...

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12 children, school bus driver killed in Jalandhar accident

Twelve children were among 13 killed and eight other students injured when a truck collided with their school bus on the Jalandhar-Nakodar road this morning. The condition of three children is serious. The...

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15 killed in Palpa bus accident

A bus carrying a wedding party fell some 300 meters down from the road along the Siddartha Highway late on Sunday evening in Palpa, killing at least 15 people aboard. The bus (Lu 1 Kha 2795) carrying...

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Athletic field used as burial site after Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami returned to former status

An athletic field here that served as a temporary burial site for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami has been returned to its former status. Miyagi Prefecture was the only prefecture...

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China grave-robbers sold dead brides for 'ghost marriages'

Four people have been jailed in China for digging up corpses to sell as brides for traditional "ghost marriages" — where dead single men are buried with a wife for the afterlife — local reports said....

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6 charred to death in cracker unit blast

The state has been shaken yet again by a catastrophic cracker unit blast. Six persons were charred to death and one was seriously injured when a cracker manufacturing unit caught fire at Panniyankurissy...

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Descendants of Flight 410 victim visit Blue Ridge Mountain site

With a light snow blowing under overcast skies, brothers Marshall and A.B. Reid clambered over car-sized boulders and between snagging mountain laurel branches trying to find every piece that remained...

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Hopes dim for missing landslide victims

Rescuers will continue looking for nine workers buried alive in a landslide inside the geothermal complex of Energy Development Corp. (EDC) in Kananga town, Leyte, company officials said. If no survivor...

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