Two bodies found; believed to be crew of Bangladeshi ship

Two bodies have been retrieved from the Andaman Sea near Krabi province. They are suspected to be members of the missing crew of the Bangladesh-registered MV Hope cargo ship that capsized yesterday....

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Drowned N. Korean freighter crew members found holding portraits of 'Dear Leaders'

Most of the bodies of dead North Korean sailors who washed up on Japanese shores earlier this year after their freighter sank in the Sea of Japan had portraits of the late North Korean President Kim...

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Rescuers in Kedarnath run out of supplies, hit by diseases

A team of 74 members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has run out of food and medicines in Uttarakhand's Kedarnath after repeated attempts to airdrop supplies for them failed due to inclement...

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For Quebec’s coroner, ‘delicate process’ lies ahead in identifying Lac-Mégantic’s dead

Faced with the grim but essential task of identifying victims of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, Quebec’s chief coroner foresees a “long, delicate process” of shipping remains in refrigerated trucks to labs...

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Namungoona fuel tank inferno DNA results out

Wails filled Mulago mortuary as the Police revealed the identities of eight bodies that were burnt beyond recognition in a fuel tanker inferno in Namungoona a fortnight ago. “We have successfully...

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High summer heat raising death toll among undocumented immigrants in Arizona

An average of five to six undocumented immigrants are turning up dead in the desert every week amid even-hotter-than-normal summer temperatures in Arizona, authorities and human rights groups say....

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Bus accident near Dadu kills 13, injures 35

An accident involving a passenger bus on the Indus Highway near Dadu claimed 13 lives and left 35 others injured, some critically. The incident happened late on Sunday night in the Bok Mori area,...

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Eight more bodies found, many still missing in Lac-Mégantic

Eight more bodies have been found in Lac-Mégantic, Que., bringing the official body count up to 13 people after a runaway train carrying crude oil set off a series of explosions and flattened the town's...

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