Sri Lankan Health Ministry to speed up postmortem of monsoon victims

The Health Ministry has made arrangements to speed up postmortems of fishermen to hand over their bodies to their families quickly, government media reported. According to Health Ministry spokesman...

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Mumbai building collapse: rescue operations called off

After 24 hours, search and rescue operations at Mumbai's Altaf Manzil have been called off. Over this period, 10 lives were lost and five people are injured, recovering in hospitals. The five-storey...

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Mass grave found in Erbil

Official sources from the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs announced on Monday June 3 in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region in north Iraq,...

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Australia justifies abandoning asylum-seeker corpses in ocean

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard defended her government's decision to leave the bodies of 13 drowned asylum-seekers in the ocean following criticism more would have been done had they been...

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All 121 victims of Jilin poultry factory fire identified

DNA tests of 121 victims of a poultry plant fire in northeast China's Jilin Province have been completed, with names of the victims being released, a local rescue command center said on Monday. The...

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Fishing for corpses in Colombia's Sanquianga river

Located in a remote corner of Colombia's southern Narino province not far off the Pacific Coast, the village of Bocas de Satinga relies on its riverside location for transport. Everything arrives...

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