Guinea concert stampede kills 24

At least 24 people have died in a stampede at a beach concert in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The president's office has declared a week...

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Boat capsize in padma: 12 missing victims

Rescuers have failed to locate the bodies of 12 people who went missing in a boat capsize in Padma river in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia yesterday. The missing people include five chilrden, reports...

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At least 20 migrants dead, dozens missing in shipwreck off Libya

More than 20 migrants have died and dozens are missing after their makeshift boat sank off the Libyan coast, the navy has said. "A navy patrol on Monday rescued 22 clandestine migrants who were...

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Costa Concordia: Divers begin search for missing Indian waiter

The search is on for the missing body of an Indian waiter who died while helping passengers escape from a sinking cruise liner near an Italian island in January 2012. Russell Rebello, 33, had been...

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Air Algérie crash bodies to be brought to France

All the bodies of passengers on Air Algérie flight AH5017 are to be brought to France, President François Hollande announced after meeting families of the 54 French victims on Saturday. Burkina Faso's...

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Fighting blocks MH17 site mission

Australian Federal Police officers were forced last night by fierce fighting to delay their search of the MH17 crash site for the still-missing remains of some of those who died aboard the Malaysia...

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Better management of dead and missing migrants needed in Europe

As the number of migrants and asylum seekers reaching southern Europe’s shores this year continues to climb - to about 75,000 at last count - so too does the death toll from attempts to cross the Mediterranean...

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2nd 'black box' found from Air Algerie crash in Mali, French forensic experts on site

France has declared a three-day mourning period to commemorate the victims of the Air Algerie Flight 5017, French President Holland declared on Saturday. Following a meeting with families of the...

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UAE DVI team sent to Ukraine to aid in the identification of MH17 plane victims

At the request of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), the UAE Disaster Victims Identification (DVI) team set out on Tuesday to Ukraine to take part in identifying the remains...

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First MH17 Crash Victims Identified

Forensic experts have identified the first of 298 people killed when flight MH17 which was shot down over Ukraine last week, the Dutch government said on Saturday. "Today the first victim of the...

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Case of mistaken identity after bus disaster: Mix-up brings joy to one family, devastation for another

It was a day of boundless joy for Swamy Goud on Friday. This farmer of Kistapur village, who was mourning the loss of his 'son' in Thursday's bus accident at Masaipet village in Medak district, suddenly...

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Air Algerie wreckage found in Mali

The wreck of an Air Algerie plane that went missing with 110 passengers on board has been found in Mali near the Burkina Faso border, according to a coordinator for the crisis unit in Ouagadougou....

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NAMUS offers way to share missing persons data

An estimated 40,000 unidentified dead bodies 10 years ago in the offices of medical examiners and coroners nationwide — many of those officials with limited access to information about missing person...

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32 bodies identified in TransAsia crash

Thirty-two people among the 48 killed in a TransAsia Airways plane crash Wednesday in the island county of Penghu have been identified, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said Thursday. The...

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47 killed after TransAsia plane crashes in typhoon-hit Taiwan - Update

A TRANSASIA Airways plane has crashed during an attempted emergency landing - killing 47 of the 58 people aboard. Flight GE222 has crashed in the Penghu Islands, off the coast of Taiwan, after deteriorating...

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Telangana: 20 children killed as school bus and train collide

A passenger train rammed into a school bus at an unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district on Thursday killing at least 20 children and injuring 15 with fears the death toll could rise...

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Air Algerie plane goes missing an hour after leaving Burkina Faso

Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso on Thursday bound for Algiers. "Air navigation services have lost contact with an Air Algerie...

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Search for missing MH370 plane 'to continue uninterrupted' despite new Ukrainian disaster

Angus Houston heads Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which oversees the search for the ill-fated airliner that is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean on March 8 after veering...

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MH17: fears that dozens of bodies remain across crash site

Dutch police investigators said on Wednesday it could be months before they know how many sets of human remains have been recovered from the MH17 crash site. As the first body bags of victims from...

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At least 51 feared dead as Taiwan passenger plane crash lands in Penghu

As many as 51 passengers of a TransAsia Airways flight died as it made an emergency landing in Penghu Wednesday evening, officials said. Over the course of the evening, the number of casualties...

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Forensic experts carry out 29 autopsies in three days after migrant tragedy

Mater Dei Hospital’s mortuary has seen the largest mass autopsy conducted since starting its operations in 2007, with 29 autopsies conducted on the bodies of 28 men and one woman recovered from the...

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Body of the final missing Washington mudslide victim has been found

Four months after a mudslide ravaged a portion of Washington state, authorities announced Tuesday that they had located its final victim. Rescue workers in Snohomish County found the body of Molly...

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MH17: Investigators concerned at missing bodies

International monitors said body parts still lay scattered at eastern Ukraine's unsecured crash site of downed flight MH17, as Dutch experts said they were given 80 fewer corpses than promised by the...

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Interpol team begins identifying victims of flight MH17 crash

International police agency Interpol said on Tuesday one of its teams had started identifying victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH 17 flight that crashed over Ukraine last week. "The remains of victims...

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MH17: Australian experts to join body identification team

An Australian expert about to join an international MH17 disaster victim identification team expects the task will resemble his work after the Black Saturday bushfires. Forensic pathologist David...

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Death toll from Typhoon Rammasun reaches 33 in China, at least 97 deaths in the Philippines

The death toll from Super Typhoon Rammasun has risen to at least 33 after seven more bodies were recovered, state-run media reported on Monday. The powerful storm made landfall in China on Friday after...

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Italy rescues 1,800 migrants over weekend, five bodies recovered

Italy's navy said it rescued nearly 1,800 migrants in overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, and a merchant ship recovered five bodies from a sinking rubber raft off the coast of Libya. Calmer summer seas have led to a surge in people trying to reach Italy from North Africa. Italy has picked up more than 70,000 migrants so far this year in its search-and-rescue mission, called "Mare Nostrum" or "Our Sea". The number of dead is also rising. At the start of July, the UNHCR estimated 500 migrants had died in the Mediterranean in the past six months, compared to 700 during the whole of last year. A merchant ship rescued 61 migrants and collected five bodies from a sinking rubber raft late on Sunday after its position was signaled by the navy, said the force. Survivors said 15 others probably drowned. Italy is struggling to keep up with the increase in migrant boats this year and has asked the European Union for...

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Victims' bodies, plane debris could hold vital clues to who shot down airliner over Ukraine

"What exactly are they trying to hide?" President Barack Obama asked Monday as he demanded that Ukrainian rebels give investigators access to the wreckage of the downed jetliner. The answer is:...

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Indonesian National Police help identify MH-17 victims

National Police chief Gen.Sutarman says the police’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team will help identify victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down in eastern Ukraine. “We have...

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