Uganda fuel tanker fire: Families clash over bodies

There was commotion at Mulago Hospital mortuary when four families claimed two bodies, arguing that they were of their relatives who perished in Saturday's inferno. The bodies are among the eight...

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40 bodies allegedly stolen from cemetery in Puerto Rico

The remains of at least 40 people are missing from a cemetery in the sleepy mountain town of Gurabo, where officials are trying to solve a mystery that has frightened neighbors and left families distraught....

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Guatemala case casts spotlight on indigenous group

Life for the indigenous Ixil Mayans in the mountains west of Guatemala City is worn and static like an old photograph. Seventeen years after the end of a civil war that saw hundreds of their villages...

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Appeal over 1,000 unidentified bodies on UK missing persons website

There are currently 1,000 unidentified bodies on police files in the UK, some dating back 50 years. Last year, a website featuring facial reconstructions and, in rare cases photos of the dead person's...

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Earthquake claims 22 lives at Aceh province in Indonesia

Rescuers battled through landslides and blocked roads on Wednesday to reach survivors from an earthquake in Indonesia's Aceh province that has killed at least 22 people, including several children...

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Missing ITBP jawans feared to have been burnt to ashes

The two missing ITBP jawans from the MI-17 chopper that crashed on June 25 in Kedarnath valley are feared to have been burnt to ashes. An ITBP team of expert mountaineers including those who have scaled...

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India floods: The search for missing victims

As India begins to wind down the rescue operations in flood-hit Uttarakhand state, the focus now shifts to families searching for the missing, reports the BBC Hindi's Vineet Khare from Rishikesh. We...

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Preparing the dead in Afghanistan

The man who spends his days surrounded by dead Afghan soldiers waits in a faded shipping container across from the morgue. But Noori rarely waits long before he is called to work. Inside the container...

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