Venezuela: Italy fashion CEO Missoni’s missing plane found; disappeared in January

The underwater wreckage of a plane that disappeared off Venezuela with the CEO of Italy’s iconic Missoni fashion house and five other people on board has been found, government officials and family...

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Historic Schooner Nina and crew of seven missing off New Zealand

A text message asking for advice about sailing on in bad weather was the last communication from missing schooner, Nina. The message was sent to a meteorologist on June 4, six days into its voyage...

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Body of storm victim found dead months after Hurricane Sandy

In the chaotic days after Superstorm Sandy, an army of aid workers streamed onto the flood-ravaged Rockaway Peninsula looking for anyone who needed help. Health workers and National Guard troops went...

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Understanding the role of local culture in disaster victim identification

Culture can be defined as the predominating attitudes and behaviour that characterize the functioning of a particular group or society. This may include belief systems, religion, (ancestral) traditions...

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7 yr norm to declare missing person 'dead' must be relaxed

The Kedarnath tragedy has killed thousands of devotees and death toll is likely to go up as thousands of people are still missing. The relatives of the missing persons are praying day and night for...

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Kinect-guided cockroaches could map disaster zones

Connecting Microsoft's Kinect system to an electronic cockroach interface could create insects capable of mapping out collapsed buildings and other dangerous areas. Remote controlled cockroaches...

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Remembering the victims of 1950s Stalinist regime

A ceremony was held on Wednesday at Prague's Ďáblice Cemetery to remember those killed or incarcerated by Czechoslovakia's communist regime. Organised by the Confederation of Former Political Prisoners,...

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Online database of all the recovered bodies on cards

A team of forensic officers was deployed by the Uttarakhand Government on Wednesday to collect DNA samples of unidentified bodies, after flash floods and landslides ravaged the hill State earlier this...

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Uttarakhand floods: Identifying the dead proving to be a daunting task

After saving most of those who survived the Uttarakhand floods, authorities are facing a daunting task in establishing identities of hundreds of bodies by way of photographs and DNA samples before...

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