Nigeria: 36 killed as luxury bus, petrol tanker collide long Benin-Ore road

At least 36 persons were reportedly burnt to death Friday in a road accident that occurred at about 1.30 pm in Ugbogui village, near Ofusu, the boundary town between Edo and Ondo state. An eye witness...

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Wahine disaster remembered 45 years on

There was no need for the band to play on as the Wahine was sinking – the passengers were already singing There’s a Hole in my Bucket. As it entered Wellington Harbour in a ferocious storm 45 years...

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Philippines recorded most disaster-related deaths in the world in 2012

The Philippines had the greatest number of disaster-related deaths in 2012, with 2,360 fatalities, according to a report in the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) newsletter....

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Cote d’Ivoire exhumes bodies from post-election violence mass graves

Ivory Coast has begun exhuming dozens of mass graves containing bodies from the country’s 2010-2011 post-election violence. At a ceremony in Abidjan’s Yopougon district on Thursday, officials said...

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Genocide Memorial Centre to Be Constructed in Tanzania

The governments of Rwanda and Tanzania are currently in talks on the possibility of constructing a Genocide memorial site in the latter's Ngara district to accommodate the remains of victims of the...

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Memorial service held for Tibet landslide victims

A memorial ceremony was held for the victims in the March 29 landslide in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday, as rescuers continued their search for the remaining missing amid snowy...

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Dozens killed as illegal building collapses in India

At least 32 people were killed and 69 injured when a building under construction in a town near Mumbai collapsed Thursday evening in an all-too-common case of illegal and shoddy construction ending...

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Argentinian rescuers search for bodies after devastating floods

Argentinian police and soldiers searched house to house, in creeks and culverts and even in trees for bodies on Thursday after floods killed at least 57 people in the province and city of Buenos Aires....

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