Mudslide kills 14 in Eastern Mexico

The death toll from a mudslide in a mountainous area in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz has risen to 14, with eight children among the dead, emergency management officials said. The mudslide...

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Families of disaster victims demanding answers

Thought-provoking article: Families of some of the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster are refusing to accept the idea that the loss of loved ones was due simply to fate. They...

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DC 50 years ago: Delhi-bound I.A.C. Viscount crashes; 13 passengers and 5 crew aboard killed

All the 18 persons on board an Indian Airlines Viscount (VT-D-10) were killed this morning when it crashed at Jojou village near the Mania railway station on the Agra/Gwalior line according to an I.A.C...

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First 16 unidentified bodies of the 1953 North Sea Flood (watersnoodramp) exhumed

Sixteen unidentified bodies of the 1953 North Sea Flood (watersnoodramp) have been exhumed in Serooskerke on Tuesday and Thursday. According to Irma Disk, team leader of the National Missing Persons...

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India: Railway Police grapple with high cost of DNA profiling for unidentified bodies

High costs involved in DNA profiling of unidentified bodies recovered from along the railway tracks have led to a pile-up of cadavers in mortuaries at government hospitals coming under the Railway...

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With no closure from tsunami, fisherman prays before empty grave of his wife

Yoshinori Iwatsuki bows his head and says a prayer in front of a gravestone here, unsure if his words will be heard. “I usually pray here, but the grave is empty,” Iwatsuki, 65, said on Sept. 11. Two...

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