WW II aircraft and remains recovered from Vancouver Island mountainside

A Second World War training aircraft and the remains of four airmen who went missing in 1942 have been recovered from a remote logging site on Vancouver Island. The Avro Anson aircraft went missing...

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14 die in Edo auto crash

No fewer than 14 persons lost their lives yesterday in an auto crash on the Benin-Okene Expressway. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the incident, which occurred around the Ewu slope...

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2nd diver dies in search of South Korean ferry

A diver has died during the search for people still missing inside a sunken South Korean ferry. It’s the second such death among divers mobilized since the ferry sank on April 16, leaving more than...

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‘Forgotten Empress’ sank 100 years ago, took 1,012 lives

It took only 14 minutes for the storied steamship to sink near Rimouski, Canada’s deadliest maritime disaster during peacetime, yet many have never heard the chilling tale. It was May 29, 1914,...

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Families of Colombia disappeared see little hope of justice

After 22 years, Mayerlis Angarita has finally given up hope and stopped searching for her mother, who disappeared one afternoon when Mayerlis was just 11. “There comes a moment when you stop looking...

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Remains of 17 people exhumed in Rudnica

The remains of 17 people and a number of skeletal remains have been exhumed to date from a mass grave at the Rudnica quarry in the municipality of Raška. This was announced on Tuesday by the Serbian...

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16 dead in Swat bus plunge

A family migrating from Mingora to Kalam met a tragedy Tuesday morning when the truck carrying them fell in the River Swat, leaving 16 of them confirmed dead and some others missing, police said. Some...

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Rescuers to cut off S Korea ferry hull to retrieve bodies

Rescue workers on Tuesday decided to cut off part of the hull of the ferry that sank off the southwest coast on April 16 to retrieve the remaining bodies. Korea Coast Guard chief Kim Suk-kyun told...

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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic

“In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic while on a flight from Rio de Janeiro...

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Fire kills 21 at South Korean hospital for elderly

Twenty-one people died and seven people were injured Wednesday in a fire at a hospital in southern South Korea that specializes in patients suffering from dementia and palsy, officials said. One...

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Collective funeral to be held for 33 victims of bus tragedy

A collective funeral will be held on Wednesday for the young victims of a bus explosion in northern Colombia, after the death of another child in hospital on Monday brings the total fatalities to 33....

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14 killed as bus falls into gorge near Shimla

At least 14 persons, including former MLA and senior BJP leader Mehar Singh Chauhan, were killed and more than 35 others injured when a Himachal Road Transport Corporation bus fell into a 150-foot...

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Opportunities to identify war dead abound as DOD overhauls troubled recovery efforts

On Tarawa, bodies of fallen Marines, still wrapped in ponchos or wearing helmets, were just below the island’s trash-ridden top soil. About 10,000 bones, hundreds of pounds of gear and dozens of...

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Train accident in northern India kills at least 40, injures dozens

An express train slammed into a parked freight train in northern India on Monday, killing at least 40 people, officials said. The Gorakhpur Express passenger train was travelling at high speed...

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China's rainstorms leave at least 26 dead

Local flood control officials said on Monday at least 26 people had been confirmed dead and 10 others were missing after rainstorms in several provinces in south and central China. "In central China's...

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At least seven killed, 27 injured in Seoul bus terminal fire

At least seven people were killed and 27 others were injured in a fire at a local bus terminal near Seoul on Monday, fire and hospital officials said. The blaze occurred about 9:10 a.m. at an underground...

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Five dead, four missing in SW China mine accident

Five people died and another four are missing after a colliery gas burst on Sunday in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said. The accident happened at about 3:51 p.m. at the...

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Day 40: Bad weather hampers search for missing bodies, police make arrest

Off of Korea's southwestern island of Jindo efforts to find the bodies of those still missing from the sunken Sewol-ho ferry have been halted for now and could be stalled until Monday. Bad weather...

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Lima 1964: The world's worst stadium disaster

The world's worst stadium disaster occurred exactly 50 years ago in the Peruvian capital Lima. More than 300 people died - but the full story has never been told, and possibly never will be. "The...

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Crisis: Floods in Bosnia expose landmines

With once-in-a-century floods engulfing large areas of Bosnia Herzegovnia and West Balkans Peninsula, experts warn that old land mines laid by Serbs in the 1990s Balkan War could be uncovered and...

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No progress in search for missing in ferry disaster

The first of a few periods of slow currents that was supposed to occur Saturday at the scene of the sunken ferry Sewol passed without any progress in the search for the 16 people still missing from...

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Edo State: Motor Accident kills 15

A ghastly motor accident that occurred on Ewu Hill at the Benin/Auchi Road in Edo state has reportedly claimed the lives of 15 persons. The accident occurred when a trailer loaded with a consignment...

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Human remains found at Oso mudslide site

Two families are waiting for DNA test results to learn if remains found Thursday in the Oso debris fields belong to loved ones they lost in the March 22 mudslide. The Snohomish County Sheriff's...

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Identifying the Dead in Rana Plaza Collapse, Tazreen Fire: DNA sampling not enough

Along with DNA sampling, the authorities should use other methods like conducting investigation through interviewing relatives and neighbours to identify the bodies of the Rana Plaza collapse and Tazreen Fashions fire victims, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday. The DNA profiling lab will not be able to identify all the dead victims, as the collection of the samples following the two industrial disasters was not appropriate, they said. Hameeda Hossain, convener of Sramik Nirapotta Forum, urged the authorities concerned to conduct the investigation using the local government bodies and representatives to identify dead workers' families and compensate them. “The DNA lab could have identified all the bodies if DNA samples had been taken from all victims of Rana Plaza collapse and Tazreen fire," said Prof Sharif Akhtaruzzaman, chief of the National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory (NFDPL) of Dhaka Medical College. The roundtable...

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Soldiers lead Korean War remains excavation

Nearly 40 Soldiers from units across Camp Carroll, participated in an excavation in support of the Republic of Korea Army 50th Infantry Division in Chilgok May 14. It was the first time the ROKA...

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Death toll of refugees in the Mediterranean continues to rise

In the last three weeks, more than 150 refugees have died in the Mediterranean in an attempt to find asylum. On May 5, 22 died off the coast of the Greek island of Samos in the Aegean when their boat...

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