Passengers' kin seek police help to identify bodies

Four families from Pune looking for their relatives have approached the Manor police following the Wednesday's bus accident. Eight bodies, including that of the bus driver, were charred beyond recognition....

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Official death toll in Quebec fire rises to 21

Quebec provincial police say 21 people have been confirmed dead in a fire that ripped through a seniors' home last week. Another 11 people were still listed as officially missing on Thursday following...

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Damage control: Coordinated response key to reducing disaster risk

There is a need to train rescue teams and establish a central command system to enable the government and humanitarian agencies to coordinate and minimise destruction during any disaster, said fellows...

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Official death toll climbs to 19 after Quebec seniors' home fire; 13 still missing

Firefighters and police officers, some on their hands and knees, braved bitter cold for yet another day to find more bodies in the rubble of a seniors' home that was engulfed in flames last week. Surete...

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Boat capsizes in India's Bihar

At least three people have drowned and six others are missing after a boat capsized in the Ganges river in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The victims were all women, who were on their way to...

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7 passengers dead and 15 injured in Luxury bus and container collision at Thane

In the wee hours of Wednesday, a luxury bus rammed into a Petroleum container killing at least 7 passengers including the driver of the bus while a four wheeler behind the bus too rammed into it leading...

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Andaman ferry disaster: Search for body of last victim still on

While the families of those who died in the Andamans boat tragedy have found a semblance of closure by receiving the bodies on Monday morning, one family is still at odds with the sea. Authorities...

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Sri Lanka mass grave toll reaches 50

Skeletal remains of at least 50 people have been dug out from a mass grave discovered in northeastern Sri Lanka, amid speculation that the remains were of Tamil civilians who had disappeared during...

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Mass grave recovered after El Salvador's gang 'truce'

In a room set apart from the scrubbed surfaces and autopsy tables of this city’s medical examiner’s office, two technicians in white coveralls are sifting through sacks of mud and death. One technician...

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Regional co-operation necessary to identify missing persons

With thousands of people still missing from the 1990s conflicts in the region, countries in Southeast Europe must be diligent in their co-operation to solve the issue, experts said. According to...

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Landslides kill 19 villagers, 10 missing on Indonesia’s Java island

Two landslides triggered by torrential rain killed at least 19 people and left 10 others missing on Indonesia’s main island of Java, a government official said Tuesday. Five houses were buried when...

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Remains of 55 found at former Florida reform school

For decades, relatives of some boys dispatched to the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys have struggled to find out what became of them after they went missing amid reports of beatings, torture...

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Official death toll climbs to 17 after Quebec seniors' home fire; 15 still missing

Firefighters and police officers, some on their hands and knees, braved bitter cold for yet another day to find more bodies in the rubble of a seniors’ home that was engulfed in flames last week. Quebec...

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Quebec fire: Four more bodies pulled from destroyed seniors' home

Recovery crews pulled four more bodies from the rubble of a fire-ravaged seniors' home, bringing the death toll to 14 with 18 missing. Provincial police made the announcement Monday afternoon. Fire...

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Five dead, 14 missing in Indonesian landslide

A landslide triggered by days of rain buried a village on Indonesia's main island of Java on Tuesday, leaving at last five people dead and another A landslide triggered by days of rain buried a village...

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The everyday tableau of Delhi’s nameless dead

The morning before the roll of the Republic Day tableau, a middle-aged man wrapped in a flimsy red rug was found dead on a pavement at Paharganj, a 10-minute drive from Rajpath, with no one and nothing...

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Brazil no safer a year after deadly club fire

Never again, officials vowed a year ago, would Brazil see a horror like the nightclub fire that killed 242 young men and women, all suffocated by toxic smoke that filled a windowless bunker of a building...

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Lac-Mégantic and L’Îsle-Verte: contrasts and similarities

Major disasters that have struck at the heart of two small Quebec communities in the space of about seven months have some striking similarities. There are also some equally glaring differences. Lac-Mégantic...

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Andaman ferry tragedy: one still missing, all bodies identified

One person was still missing after a tourist boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal off Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Sunday. All the bodies have been identified and sent back to...

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Canadian fire bodies search resumes

Crews have resumed searching for the remains of 22 people presumed killed in a fire at a Quebec retirement home after temporarily suspending their activities due to the frigid temperatures and swirling...

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21 killed as tourist boat sinks in India

A boat carrying local tourists capsized Sunday in India's Andaman Sea in the Bay of Bengal, killing 21 people, officials said. The boat was carrying 43 people when it sank between Ross Island and...

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Mumbai: In anonymity even after death

Every third person dying on railway tracks in city is unidentified. Nearly one third of the people dying on railway premises in the city remain unidentified, according to statistics provided the...

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Quebec fire crews find more bodies, many still missing

Crews recovered two more bodies on the third day of search efforts at a retirement home in Quebec that was destroyed by fire. Ten people are confirmed dead after Thursday’s blaze in L’Isle Verte,...

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Many dead in DR Congo blast caused by lightning

An explosion at an arms depot in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 20 people, UN officials say. The explosion happened on Friday after a bolt of lightning caused a fire at an...

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4 Russian Coast Guard officers die, 6 missing in boat wreck

As many as 10 people drowned after a Russian border patrol vessel capsized off the coast of Kunashir, a Russia—controlled island north of Japan, officials confirmed on Saturday. Russian officials...

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3 bodies a day still being found in Tacloban

More than two months after a super typhoon devastated Tacloban City, authorities continued to find an average of three bodies a day, Mayor Alfred Romualdez said on Thursday. After earlier tangling...

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11 killed, four injured as jeep plunges into ravine in Chitral

At least 11 people were killed and four others injured when a Chitral-bound jeep fell into a ravine in the Marwai area of the district here on Saturday. According to District Police Officer (DPO),...

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Rumors about zeolite miracles spark after Fukushima disaster

Rumors that zeolites allegedly can work miracles in fighting against radiation do not die off in Russia. Some people are saying fantastic things that, allegedly, zeolites were used to “egest radiation”...

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Mudslide sweeps through Argentina

A mudslide that swept through parts of northwestern Argentina has killed three people and left eight others missing, authorities said today. It happened last night in the Catamarca region, nearly...

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8 confirmed dead in Quebec fire, about 30 missing as rescuers battle through ice in search for bodies

The painstaking search through the iced-over remains of a burned-out Quebec retirement home resumes Saturday morning, with friends and relatives of some 30 missing people awaiting word. Eight people...

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Two migrants die, 12 missing under tow in Greece

The UN has called for an inquiry after a boat carrying migrants capsized while being towed by a Greek coastguard vessel, leaving up to twelve dead. Two bodies were found but a further 10 people...

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2 dead, at least 12 missing after Indonesia bridge collapse

At least two people died and many were missing after a bridge collapsed in Serang on Tuesday afternoon as dozens of people, many of them children, were watching the high water level in the Cibanten...

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Plane crash victims to be buried in Namibia

Some families of the 33 victims who died in Mozambique Airlines Flight TM 470 that crashed in Kavango-East in November last year have opted to have the remains buried in Namibia. That was one of...

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21 missing in Omaha plant fire

Firefighters are searching an accident site at a Nebraska industrial plant for bodies, the interim Omaha fire chief said Monday. Bernard Kanger said there were 17 survivors and some deaths at the...

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