6 Bangladeshis among 9 killed in UAE factory fire

Six Bangladeshis are among the nine workers killed in a devastating fire at a pesticide factory at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Bangladesh Embassy in the Gulf state says. Nasrin...

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7 killed‚ 4 missing after landslides hit rural Taplejung

Seven including six members of a family are reportedly killed, and four other are missing when a landslide buried a house at Thukimba-6, Taplejung on Wednesday mid-night. The deceased are identified...

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Death toll hits 120 in deadly China fire; 90 percent of victims women; 17 unaccounted for

Authorities raised the death toll Wednesday by one to 120 in this week’s disastrous fire at a northeast China poultry processing plant, with another 17 people unaccounted for. The State Administration...

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9 killed in Egypt's traffic accident

At least nine people were killed and six others injured on Wednesday when a microbus collided with two trucks on a main road in Giza governorate near Egypt's capital Cairo, state-run MENA news agency...

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New study shows that migrant deaths remain high in Arizona

When people’s bodies, often merely skeletons, turn up in the remote and harsh reaches of southern Arizona’s desert, it can be hard to say how or when they died, let alone who they were or where they...

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Jilin slaughterhouse blaze site off limits as relatives mourn

Police in Dehui, Jilin, have tightened security around a poultry slaughterhouse where at least 120 workers were killed in a fire, as bereaved relatives prepare to mark a burial day without the bodies...

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6 confirmed dead in Philadelphia building collapse

A woman was found alive in the rubble 13 hours after a building collapsed in Center City -- killing at least six people and injuring more than a dozen others. The collapse at 2140 Market Street happened...

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