Rains hamper Sri Lanka mudslide tragedy search effort

Heavy rains disrupted a massive search on Thursday for scores of people feared buried in a landslide on a Sri Lankan tea estate, further dimming prospects of finding anyone alive. Hundreds of troops...

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Shining Path victims' remains returned 30 years after their deaths

The remains of 65 victims of the Shining Path have been returned to their families 30 years after they were killed. Men, women, and children who were killed by the Shining Path between 1989 and...

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Families of missing in Sewol ferry disaster demand new search plan after body find

The families of passengers still officially listed as missing from the sunken ferry Sewol demanded Wednesday that the government come up with a thorough plan to find and recover the bodies. The...

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Sri Lanka landslide: at least 16 dead, hundreds missing

Mudslides triggered by monsoon rains swept through a tea-growing region of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and leaving around 300 more missing, disaster officials have said. The...

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Divers suffer as search for ferry victims continues

More than 100 days have passed since divers found the last body in the ferry that sank off the southwest coast on April 16. But the search for the missing victims continues, and 32 divers go to work...

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A month after Japanese volcano eruption, six remain missing

Monday marks one month of the Ontake volcano eruption, the most deadly in Japan since 1926, which killed 57 people and left six others missing after search operations were suspended due to the first...

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Floods and heavy rains leave 22 dead in Nicaragua

Twenty-two people are dead and 32,000 are homeless after torrential rain caused flooding near Nicaragua's capital Managua. Days of torrential rains in Nicaragua has left 22 people dead and 32,000...

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Government confirms Chinese boat with 15 people missing since July

A boat with a crew of 15 has been missing in the South China Sea since July, authorities in Shandong Province, where the boat is registered, said on Saturday. The announcement came after a report...

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16 killed in northwest China coal mine collapse

A coal mine shaft collapsed in northwestern China, killing 16 miners, an official said Saturday, highlighting the persistence of safety problems in the industry despite a leveling off of demand. Another...

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One out of 26 bodies from Lake Kariba disaster retrieved

Only one body out of the 26 people who drowned Friday in Lake Kariba, Gwembe area has so far been retrieved. And the Zambia Army and police are struggling to retrieve other bodies and may fail due...

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DNA analysis starts on church collapse victims

The DNA samples gathered from the 116 people who died in the collapse of the building in Nigeria over a month ago have arrived at a laboratory in Stellenbosch for analysis. Minister of Performance,...

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The slow, dangerous work of recovering Ukraine's war dead

What priority should a country give to retrieving, identifying, and burying its war dead? Ask Yaroslav Zhylkin, the head of Ukraine's casualty-recovery efforts, and he'll begin with an anecdote...

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Death toll in Nepal's worst trekking disaster reaches 43

Rescuers on Tuesday pulled out three bodies of Nepali citizens killed in last week's freak blizzards and avalanches, taking the toll in the Himalayan nation's worst trekking disaster to 43. The...

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12 Natore bus accident victims buried

Twelve deceased among 33, who were killed in a fatal road crash in Baraigram upazila on Monday afternoon, were buried at the village of Sidhuli at Gurudaspur upazila on Tuesday morning. The 12 deceased,...

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Bus falls into gorge in Himachal Pradesh, leaves 15 dead, 17 injured

On Tuesday, at least 15 people were killed and another 17 were injured after a private bus fell into 400 feet gorge in Rohtrung village in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district. Reportedly, about...

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Death toll rises to 17 in fireworks plant blast in South India

The death toll in fire at a fireworks factory in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh rose to 17, after five more deaths were reported here on Tuesday. The police said two more women are missing...

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How robots could help health workers manage this Ebola outbreak

Could robots assist health workers manage the ongoing Ebola outbreak? Researchers in Massachusetts and around the world are going to discuss how the machines could help during this crisis and in future...

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Death toll climbs to 32 in Natore bus collision

The death toll from an accident involving two passenger buses in Natore has climbed to 32, making it one of the biggest road tragedies in Bangladesh. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed grief...

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11 killed in blast at cracker unit near Kakinada

Eleven persons, including 10 women, were killed and seven injured in an explosion at a cracker-making unit at Vakatippa, a tiny coastal village about 25 km from here, on Monday. Residents of Vakatippa,...

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Three more bodies pulled from Nepal disaster zone

Emergency workers in Nepal pulled three more bodies from the snow today, as authorities prepared to end the full scale search for survivors of a deadly snowstorm that struck last Tuesday. More...

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Facebook adds emergency check-in feature for natural disasters

In 2011, when a deadly tsunami set off 30-foot tidal waves that crashed into the shores of Japan, flooding entire cities and damaging nuclear power plants, Facebook became an instrumental tool in connecting...

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Truck crashes into shop in Cameroon killing 17

A truck crashed into a shop in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, killing 17 students, national radio reported on Friday. The building in the neighbourhood of Monte des Soeurs was destroyed in the late...

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Tragedy at the Cambrian Colliery disaster of 1965

May 17, 1965. A day forever etched on the memory of the coalmining community of the South Wales valleys. Next year, on the 50th anniversary, there will be a special event in Clydach Vale near Tonypandy...

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Death toll rises in Nepal avalanche area

Rescuers have widened their search for trekkers missing since a series of blizzards and avalanches battered the Himalayas in northern Nepal earlier this week, leaving at least 29 people killed. The...

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Pentagon report faults efforts to find MIAs

The Pentagon's effort to find missing service members from past wars is wracked within inefficiencies, lacks a clear mission and fails to differentiate remains that can be recovered from those lost...

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16 killed in collapse at South Korea pop concert

At least 16 people are dead and nearly a dozen injured after the ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed at an outdoor pop concert in South Korea today, officials said. The crowd had climbed...

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Nepal rescuers search for missing hikers, bodies in heavy Himalayan snow

The grim search for missing hikers and bodies buried under snow resumed Thursday against the dramatic backdrop of Nepal's Himalayas, a day after the news emerged that at least 17 trekkers had died...

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Six months on, S. Korea ferry disaster victims’ families continue to grieve

“Sewol ferry recovery update No. 377 ... Days since last body found — 88.” Six months after South Korea’s worst maritime disaster, the official e-mails keep coming — sometimes several a day — recording...

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Jammu and Kashmir: Four bodies dug out in Saddal hamlet, eight yet to be recovered

Four more bodies have been recovered in Udhampur district's landslide-buried Saddal village, taking the total number of bodies recovered so far to 30. The rescue teams, armed with heavy machines...

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Himalayan disaster: Heavy snowfall in Nepal from Hudhud kills at least 17 climbers, several missing

An avalanche in the Himalayan region of central Nepal has killed at least 17 climbers, including at least eight foreign nationals, officials said Wednesday. More than 100 people are reportedly missing...

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Lagos church collapse: DNA samples needed

The coroner investigating the collapsed guest house at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (Scoan) in Lagos has appealed to South African authorities to help in the identification of bodies of their...

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Tanzania: Death toll in Kigoma boat tragedy rises to 10

The death toll from Lake Tanganyika accident in which 70 people, including a newly-wed couple, were rescued has increased to ten people. The accident that occured at Kigoma Region's Kalalanga village...

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15 teenagers feared dead as boat capsizes in Kano

The city of Kano was thrown into mourning on Tuesday following the death of 15 teenagers in a boat mishap at Jobawa village, Garin Mallam Local Government Area of the state. The children, who were...

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MH17 victims’ belongings recovered from Ukraine crash site

Four Dutch experts and local emergency services made a start on Monday recovering personal belongings from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in east Ukraine, carting away boxes of personal...

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Helicopter carrying 12 goes missing in Russia

A Mi-8 helicopter with 12 people aboard disappeared in Russia's Tuva republic in southern Siberia, regional transport prosecutor's office said Friday. "The helicopter disappeared 220 km east of...

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Government to declare Air Algerie plane deaths without bodies

The Lebanese government is planning to use French police reports rather than actual human remains to recognize the deaths of some 19 Lebanese nationals who died in a plane crash in Africa earlier this...

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