Jilin: Investigators hunt for clues to fire, DNA samples taken from relatives

Process of identifying the dead is continuing slowly, report He Na and Han Junhong in Dehui, Jilin. Police have cordoned off the road running up to the slaughterhouse in rural northeast China where...

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Alleged dog remains from fire turn out to be human

In what must be one of the worst cases of “mistaken identity”, the remains handed over to relatives of a missing couple, at first announced to be of their two dogs, turned out to be human. The remains...

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Mexico’s institutions overwhelmed by scale of forced disappearances

Mexican police officer Luis Ángel León Rodríguez disappeared along with six other officers and a civilian on Nov. 16, 2009, in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Six days later, his mother, Araceli...

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Dozens killed in China bus blaze

More than 40 people have died when an express bus burst into flames on an elevated road in south-eastern China, reports say. The blaze occurred during the evening rush hour in the port city of Xiamen,...

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19 die as bus rolls into gorge in Himachal

Nineteen people, including eight women, were killed Friday and 13 injured when a private bus carrying them skidded off a road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, police said....

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Over 181 lives lost in Victoria Day disaster of 1881

For the past few weeks we have been looking at the terrible tragedy that occurred on May 24, 1881 in the usually placid waters of the Thames River between downtown London and Springbank Park. Last...

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