28 February 1975: Worst ever Tube disaster as 43 die in Moorgate crash

Forty-two Tube passengers were killed after their train failed to stop at Moorgate station in the worst ever crash on the London Underground on this day in 1975. Driver Leslie Newson, 56, also died...

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Thailand school bus crash east of Bangkok kills at least 15 people

At least 15 people, including 13 children, have been killed after a bus carrying students on a trip to the seaside collided with a lorry in eastern Thailand. Authorities say more than 45 others...

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Organization works to identify migrants who disappeared along border

The Colibri Center for Human Rights was founded with the aim of ending the sorrowful cycle for many families of having a loved one missing in the Arizona desert. "We're a search center and we're...

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Report criticizes Mexico for lack of accountability on 'disappeared' people

The Mexican government has reported but not accounted for thousands of people who were reported "disappeared," according to the U.S. State Department "2013 Country Reports on Human Rights" released...

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Corpses still being found after Haiyan

Four months after Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, bodies are still being found, though the government hasn't updated the death toll of 6201. Bodies are still being found under the wreckage...

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2 missing Indian navy officers found dead inside naval submarine

The Indian navy rescued sailors from one of its Russian-built Kilo class submarines following an accident off the coast of Mumbai, a mishap that brought back memories of fire and explosions aboard...

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Jayapura landslide: Two more bodies found, one remains missing

A combined military, police and national rescue team has found two more bodies buried in landslides in Jayapura, though one person is still missing. Jayapura Military Commander Lt. Col. Wahyu revealed...

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10 workers dead in Thai building collapse

At least 10 workers died and 17 others were injured when a large concrete beam collapsed Tuesday at a construction site just outside Bangkok, police said. Television footage showed rescue workers...

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Skeletal remains of 80 bodies found in Mannar

Skeletal remains of nearly 80 bodies have been excavated in Mannar in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, which bore the brunt of the brutal war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Tamil militants....

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50 Years after Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 crashed into Lake Pontchartrain leaving no survivors, something still remains

The flight took off from Moisant Field at 2:01 a.m. on its way to Atlanta. It was lost from radar screens just nine minutes later. A worker on a dredge anchored in Lake Pontchartrain saw a greenish...

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Uttarakhand flash floods: A tragedy twice over for Delhi victims' families

For families of those killed in last year's devastating flash floods in Uttarakhand, it's a double whammy. First, many of them were not even able to trace the bodies of their near and dear ones,...

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8 dead, 30 injured as suspension bridge collapses in Vietnam

At least eight people died and more than 30 others were injured when a suspension bridge collapsed over a dry stream in the northwestern province of Lai Chau Monday. The accident happened at around...

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The Mass Graves of Bor, South Sudan

A handful of volunteers in almost deserted Bor, capital of South Sudan's Jonglei State, remove dead bodies from homes, put them in body bags donated by the International Committee of the Red Cross,...

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Dominican official: Bodies of 3 more Haitians found where boat capsized; death toll at 8

The bodies of three more Haitians have been recovered by authorities in the Dominican Republic, raising the death toll to eight from a capsizing of a smuggler's boat last week. Local civil defense...

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Families of MIA soldiers hope for excavation at Vietnam war site in Koh Tang

Potential evidence related to Americans still missing after the final battle of the Vietnam War may lead to extensive excavation efforts on an island off the coast of Cambodia, giving renewed hope...

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11 Killed in Indonesia Landslides

Two people are still missing after the landslides hit three locations in the provincial capital of Jayapura, according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency,...

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Black boxes found from Libyan plane crash in Tunisia

Tunisian searchers have found and handed over to Tripoli the black boxes from a Libyan military plane that crashed Friday, killing 11 including a top former jihadist, the government said. "The transport...

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The missing Israelis who never return

A retired member of the Israel Police elite anti-terror squad called the national emergency number around two years ago, to report a barefoot young man wandering around a highway. The officer was the...

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Ghosts of Srebrenica

The call had come from the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). We have found and identified Ekrem, one of your brothers, the caller told the Bosnian Muslim woman, before delicately...

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Police confirm 12 dead in Mazabuka road accident

12 people have died while 23 others sustained injuries after an accident which happened around 02:45 hours on 21st February 2014 near Frogmall located about 15Km from Mazabuka. Out of the 12, one died...

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Christchurch marks three years since devastating earthquake

Christchurch has remembered those who died on the third anniversary of the devastating 2011 earthquake. Thousands of people gathered for the civic memorial service on the archery lawn at the Botanical...

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Libyan military plane crash - Search for black box going on

Defence Ministry Spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni told TAP news agency on Friday morning that the Air Force is carrying on, in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Authority, its search for the black box...

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Haitian migrants' boat capsizes off Dominican Republic, 12 still missing

A boat carrying about 25 Haitian migrants capsized Thursday off the southeast tip of the Dominican Republic, killing at least three. Authorities recovered three bodies and rescued another 10 passengers,...

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Authorities turn to mitochondrial DNA tests to identify 3/11 victims

Japanese authorities who are still trying to identify the remains of victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami say they are having greater success testing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)...

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Libya military plane crashes in Tunisia, 11 dead

A Libyan army medical plane crashed south of Tunis early on Friday, killing all 11 people on board, Tunisian emergency services said. "The plane crashed at 1:30 am (0030 GMT)... with 11 people on...

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30 more Typhoon victims recovered in Tacloban in two weeks

More than three months have passed since Yolanda devastated the city but authorities continued to recover more dead bodies from different areas in Tacloban. In the recently concluded Regional Disaster...

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Train fire: 2 bodies yet to be identified

More then a month after a fire broke out in the Dehradun Express, which killed nine commuters near Dahanu station on January 8, family members of two missing passengers are still waiting for results...

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GPS-tracked pig carcass to help RCMP find bodies in river

Where do bodies that fall in the South Saskatchewan River go? Saskatoon RCMP believe a pig carcass will help solve that mystery. Cpl. Tyler Hadland with the Historical Case Unit said, since the...

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Boulder County Coroner shares lessons learned at mortuary fire

The arson fire that destroyed Howe Mortuary last year remains unsolved, but the Boulder County Coroner said last week that the unusual crime was a lesson for her office that she is sharing with other...

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Nepal gov't hands over 13 bodies of passengers killed in plane crash

The Nepal government on Tuesday afternoon handed over dead bodies of 13 passengers who were killed in Sunday's plane crash to the respective family members, officials said. Officials from Nepal Airlines...

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Cannibal restaurant 'with roasted human heads on the menu' shut down by police

Police arrested 11 people and closed a restaurant after two human heads wrapped in cellophane were discovered at a hotel restaurant that had been serving human flesh. A tip-off led police to the...

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