Frogmen join body hunt as Japan typhoon tolls hit 24

Frogmen were Friday scouring waters off the coast of a Japanese island where landslides buried houses when a huge typhoon rolled through, as the death toll reached 24. Coastguards joined the grim...

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Death toll in Philippine quake nearing 200

The death toll from a killer quake in the central Philippines is likely to approach 200 as rescue teams focused on finding dead bodies buried under landslides and fallen structures, an official said...

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Bid to retrieve Pike mine workers starts

The first step towards re-entering the entrance tunnel of Pike River mine tunnel is underway. Work to clear equipment from the top of the ventilation shaft above the Solid Energy-owned mine's entrance...

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Bodies of two Thai crash victims found

Two Thais among those who perished in the Lao Airlines crash have now been identified, Laos authorities said yesterday. Attempts to find other missing bodies including the other three Thais and...

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Grim task of identifying Laos bodies

Disaster victim identification experts from Australia arrived in the southern Laos city of Pakse yesterday to begin the grim task of matching the remains of six Australians killed in the country's...

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