At least 12 dead in blast at China explosives plant

At least 12 people died and 11 were missing Monday after a blast destroyed an explosives workshop in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, state media said. The explosion scattered rubble up...

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Exhumation of Tawergha mass grave completed

Searchers have uncovered a total of 11 bodies in the mass grave in Tawergha, at the end of the first stage of the delicate operation. The final stages of the exhumation was watched by the Minister...

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Rescuers recover 6 more bodies from collapsed Indonesian mine

Rescuers recovered six more bodies from the collapsed Freeport Indonesia mine, a report said on Monday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 14 while the same number is still trapped. The remains...

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Bangladesh National DNA Profiling Laboratory requires expensive DNA software for collapse victims

The National DNA Profiling Laboratory cannot match DNA samples taken from more than 200 bodies recovered from Rana Plaza, with the DNA samples taken from more than 450 people claiming the bodies, because...

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Relatives still looking for a trace at Bangladesh collapse site

A middle-aged father, looking for trace of his only daughter, held on to the barbed wire around the now empty lot where the eight-storey Rana Plaza used to stand. “I have nobody here and I cannot...

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