Toll in DR Congo train crash rises to 74

The toll in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 74 dead. Many people were trapped for days in the mangled wreckage of the goods train that flew off the rails last...

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A 1956 plane crash in the Grand Canyon made flying safer

In 1956 two planes collided over the Arizona desert, killing all 128 people on board and scattering the debris deep inside the Grand Canyon. This week, the National Park Service designated the crash...

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S Korea ferry disaster: Floating buoy used to spot bodies being carried away

Search teams say they'll use floating buoys in an attempt to stop bodies drifting away from the accident site. The buoys will be used to detect various environmental factors such as the wind direction,...

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Tornado sweeps across southern US leaving at least 12 dead

At least 12 people have been killed after a powerful storm system wreaked havoc through the southern and central US on Sunday night. A spokesman for the Arkansas governor, Mike Beebe, said 11 people...

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Body recovery from sunken S.Korean ferry suspended

Concerns are growing among anguished families that the bodies of those who died in the sinking of a South Korean ferry may never be found, as search teams suspended work on Saturday because of bad...

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Missing SAR helicopter and crew located by underwater robot submarine near Canary Islands

An underwater robot submarine, “Rémora II”, located the wreck of a Search and Rescue helicopter that crashed into the sea in the waters of the Canary Islands in March, killing all 4 crew members, who...

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Bosnia: 100 of 400 war victims found in mass grave identified

Forensic experts have managed to identify 100 of nearly 400 people killed during the 1992-1995 war and buried in a mass grave near the northwestern town of Prijedor, the State Prosecutor's Office in...

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South Korea admits ferry disaster dead bodies given to wrong families

As visiting President Barack Obama offered South Koreans his condolences Friday for the ferry disaster, the South Korean government conceded that some bodies have been misidentified and announced changes...

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Another 20 Fromelles diggers identified

A further 20 Australian soldiers killed during the bloody World War I battle at Fromelles have been identified, defence officials have confirmed. Relatives are being notified after the soldiers...

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There are still broken bones beneath Bangladesh's collapsed sweat shop

One year ago today, Rana Plaza — a nine-story factory building in Savar, Bangladesh — collapsed, killing 1,116 workers immediately and injuring many more. Some of their bodies are still in the back...

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South korea ferry disaster: Confirmed death toll at 183 with 119 still missing

Latest search operations for the sunken ferry have been focused on its third- and fourth-deck cabins, where most of the missing victims are believed to be trapped. Working during the last remaining...

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Deadly illegal mining booms below South African City of Gold

Smoke rises from a derelict mine shaft 25 miles east of Johannesburg, where illegal miners cook, work and sleep below ground for weeks at a time. They have broken through a slab of concrete covering...

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Families protest opencast mine plans on site of Diglake disaster burial ground

Outraged descendants of miners who drowned in a colliery disaster staged a protest against plans to build an opencast mine on the site. The group waved banners outside the civic offices before Newcastle...

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More typhoon ‘Yolanda’ bodies found

Five months after Supertyphoon “Yolanda” leveled large swathes of the Eastern Visayas, dead bodies continue to turn up. Seven bodies were recovered in Tacloban City over the weekend as government...

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Mount Everest has claimed many lives

Mount Everest has recently claimed 16 lives from a deadly avalanche, which makes this the deadliest disaster that the mountain has ever seen in one day. Though this is a larger-than-usual tragedy,...

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Ideal procedure was not maintained in identifying Rana Plaza victims

Faced with an industrial disaster of an unprecedented scale, it was not possible to follow the ideal procedure of using DNA tests to identify the Rana Plaza victims, the chief of the national DNA lab...

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Indian Air Force to set up high-risk crew’s DNA database

In a first, the Indian Air Force has initiated a project for DNA profiling of its personnel, selecting a high-risk group of aircrew that undertakes dangerous missions for the first round. A database...

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South Korea's ferry crash: 159 bodies found, 143 still missing

The death toll from South Korea’s ferry crash has reached 159, with 143 people still missing, the coastal guard of the Chindo island said. The search and rescue team say that the bodies of the missing...

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Tanzania: Simiyu accident toll rises to 15

The death toll from the road accident that involved a bus christened Lehuye Express Bus on the Tarime-Mwanza Highway on Monday has increased to 15, with the number of those injured standing at 44,...

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12 perish in road accident in Edo

No fewer than 12 persons were Tuesday feared death in a multiple road accident and scores of others sustained various degree of injuries as a truck conveying granite rammed into three vehicles and...

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63 killed, 80 injured in Congo train crash

At least 63 people were killed and 80 were seriously injured in Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province when a train speeding too fast round a bend derailed. Fifty others were trapped inside...

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Suspected mass grave excavated

Experts have started excavation on a mass grave in Serbia believed to contain at least 250 bodies of ethnic Albanians who were killed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. The Serbian government official...

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Rescuers find 121 bodies from sunken ship, 181 still missing

Authorities Tuesday confirmed that the death toll in the South Korean ferry capsize is 121 as rescue divers continued their searches for more bodies from the sunken vessel in which over 180 passengers...

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The Ghosts of Rana Plaza

In Bangladesh, one year after the worst accident in the history of the garment industry, recovery remains a fragile process, justice seems elusive, and reform has a long way to go. Lutfer Rahman...

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