Sec’bad Hotel collapse: Scar helps father identify dead son

Imagine the prospect of having to look at disfigured and decomposed bodies in a morgue and then struggling to identify their own children. On Wednesday, Hanumantha Rao found himself lost in the middle...

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China Sichuan landslide 'buries up to 40 people'

A landslide has buried between 30 and 40 people in China's Sichuan province, state media say. The landslide occurred in Zhongxing town on Wednesday morning. More than 100 rescuers with rescue dogs...

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Uganda tanker fire - Two bodies remain unidentified

The DNA results of the victims of the Namugoona inferno have been processed, with the results of eight unidentified bodies positively matching, while two bodies remain unknown due to non-matching results....

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Bodies at Lala Lajpta Rai Hospital's mortuary become food for mongoose

Slackness on part of the health personnel and guards on duty at the mortuary of Lajpta Rai Hospital (LLR) has proved unfortunate for the kin of a woman whose body had been kept in the mortuary from...

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City Light Hotel collapse toll rises to 17

The death toll in the City Light Hotel mishap rose to 17 as four more bodies were dug out on Tuesday from the debris of the hotel on RP Road in Secunderabad that collapsed on Monday morning. The...

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Thais spot four more bodies

Local fishermen have said they saw four bodies in life jackets off Koh Rok, off the coast of Krabi, south of Phuket, the Phuket Gazette says, but whether those were of the missing Bangladesh ship crew...

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Uttarakhand missing declared dead tomorrow

Nearly 4,000 people missing in the Uttarakhand disaster will be declared dead by the state tomorrow, a senior official said this evening. “There are 3,975 people missing, including 975 locals. The...

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