Chile: Exhumation can be act of exorcising the guilt

The history of Chile may be revised yet again if the forensic examination of the body of the country’s famous poet, Pablo Neruda, which has been exhumed, shows that he died of poisoning and not of...

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Heathrow stowaway who fell to his death over London is finally identified

Police have identified a man whose body fell from the undercarriage of a plane last year. Jose Matada, aged 30, was found in Portman Avenue, Mortlake in September but his identity remained a mystery...

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India: PIL seeks policy on disposal of unidentified bodies

A public interest litigation highlighting discovery of thousands of human bodies every year across the country and their unceremonious disposal by dumping them in rivers stirred the Supreme Court on...

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Guatemala confronts a dark chapter

The soldiers killed Jacinto Lopez's teenage daughter Magdalena by repeatedly stabbing her in the neck. Then they shot and killed his sons, 13-year-old Domingo and 10-year-old Pedro. His in-laws...

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India: For surgical lessons, a cadaver laboratory of unclaimed bodies at AIIMS Trauma Centre

Bodies recovered by police and then unclaimed will go to the operation theatre so that budding surgeons can hone their skills in neurosurgery, orthopaedics and laparoscopy. A body bank or cadaver...

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India: Maha hospital to construct a new mortuary for Maoists’ bodies

Facing shortage of space to keep the bodies of Maoist insurgents killed in police encounters, the General Hospital administration here has decided to construct a new mortuary building. The mortuary...

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Five more Fromelles WWI dead identified

Another five Australian soldiers killed in the World War I Battle of Fromelles have been identified. The diggers' remains are among those of 250 Australian and British soldiers recovered from a mass...

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Korean War: Soldier's remains found in North Korea to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery

The remains of a Korean War Medal of Honor winner from southern Indiana that were recovered nearly a decade ago with the cooperation of North Korea have been identified and will be buried in Arlington...

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