Relatives ask for mass burial of Chisumbanje ethanol tanker explosion victims

Relatives of 17 out of the 24 Chisumbanje ethanol tanker explosion victims yesterday asked Government for a mass burial after they disagreed on the identities of the bodies. The 25th body belonged...

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Mahbubnagar bus fire: An agonising wait for families to claim bodies

Family of 50-year-old Venkatesh Yadav and his cousin Anita (42), who were on their way to Hyderabad from Bangalore to distribute invitations for Anita’s daughter’s wedding and died in the ghastly bus...

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November 9, 1963: 162 dead in triple train smash near Yokohama

More than 162 persons were killed and 94 injured in a three-train smash-up on November 9, 1963 between Tsurumi Station and Shin-Koyasu Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama, Japan. Japan...

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50 years ago: Coliseum blast kills 74

Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the explosion at the Coliseum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds that killed 74 people and injured hundreds of others. Dawn Tabler was 10 years old when the...

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Kin pay respects at marker for typhoon Pablo victims in Barangay Andap

While most Filipinos trooped to the cemeteries to remember their beloved departed on Friday, All Saints’ Day, some residents of this town who lost their families and relatives to rampaging flashfloods...

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Philippines earthquake: Retrieval ops end for 5 missing kids in Bohol

The search and retrieval operations for the five missing children in quake-ravaged Sagbayan town, Bohol has ended on Friday, authorities said. The five children, aged 9 to 15, were swimming in the...

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