Minnesota history: Most deadly shipwreck is least known

It’s late November, so when talk turns to Minnesota shipwrecks, Lake Superior quickly comes to mind. The Edmund Fitzgerald vanishing in a 1975 gale with 29 aboard. The frozen bodies chipped from the...

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Bodies of two trapped miners recovered from Ermenek mine

Search and rescue teams on Nov. 29 reached the remains of two more workers who were killed in a mine disaster in the southern Anatolian town of Ermenek, while efforts are continuing to reach six others...

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Bheri bus accident: Four more bodies recovered

Four more bodies of the missing passengers were recovered from the Bheri River on Saturday, increasing the death toll from last week’s fatal passenger bus accident in Jajarkot district to 52. Bodies...

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Kailali bus accident: Death toll reaches 12

In yet another accident blamed on reckless driving, a bus skidded off the road and fell over a cliff at Sahajpur-2 on the Bhimdutta Highway in Kailali district on Saturday morning, killing 12 and injuring...

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Rescue hope fades: no trace of 26 missing in trawler capsize in Bay of Bengal

The 26 people, who had gone down with the FV Bandhan in the Bay of Bengal early Friday, remained missing even after 32 hours. Divers of Bangladesh Navy, however, located the sunken fishing vessel...

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Bhopal gas tragedy: One night, 876 autopsies

It was around four in the morning when the calling bell rang at D.K. Satpathy’s home in Idgah Hills on 3 December 1984. “Try to reach the mortuary as soon as possible, there are casualties beyond...

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Man locates father's body 10 years after tsunami

A Nepalese man has identified his father's remains in Thailand 10 years after he died during the Indian Ocean Tsunami, officials said Friday. Police officials in Thailand's Phang Nga Province confirmed...

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Families of convicted Sewol ferry crew haunted by stigma and isolation

An article explaining that not only the families of those killed are profoundly affected by a disaster.. Im Young-ae and her husband, a crew member who survived the Sewol ferry disaster, had dreamed...

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Unidentified corpses pile up in Baja

Between 2013 and June of this year, Baja California medical examiners have been unable to identify more than 1100 cadavers presented to them for autopsy. Most of the unclaimed bodies have been...

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Archaeologists to exhume the bodies of over 100 unidentified Argentine soldiers on Falkland Islands

Archaeologists in Argentina are set to exhume the unidentified bodies of over 100 Argentine soldiers who were killed during the Falklands War. The Argentine Group of Anthropological Forensics (AGAF)...

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Lagos church collapse: Nigeria DNA samples difficult to match

Genetic testing to identify the remains of 84 South Africans killed in the Nigerian building collapse was extremely difficult, the Saturday Star reported. Dr Munro Marx, head of Stellenbosch University's...

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Debate over fate of sunken corpse ship from 1902 with 499 bodies on board continues

The S.S. Ventnor sank 112 years ago off the northern New Zealand coast, bearing unusual cargo: the exhumed bodies of 499 Chinese miners, some in wooden coffins and others in sealed zinc caskets. They...

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HMS Bulwark explosion centenary marked in Portsmouth

The 100th anniversary of a massive explosion that killed most of the 750 sailors on a Royal Navy battleship has been marked in Portsmouth. The huge blast ripped through HMS Bulwark in the Medway...

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Argentine forensic specialists identify three of the 30 bodies found in the mass graves

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, or EAAF, that is collaborating with the Mexican Government in the Ayotzinapa investigations, said Tuesday it identified three more bodies found in clandestine...

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Death toll rises in Nepal bus crash

The death toll from a bus crash in western Nepal has risen to 47, making it one of the country's deadliest road accidents in years, police said. Emergency workers pulled the bodies of 44 victims...

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Nigeria church collapse: New DNA samples to identify remaining South African victims

Government says fresh DNA samples have been collected from the families whose loved ones have still not been identified after the Nigerian building collapse. More than 100 people died when a guest...

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SS Ventnor wreck found: 112-year-old gold mining wreck with 499 bodies aboard

Artefacts and video footage of a sunken shipwreck missing for more than 110 years will be revealed today for the first time. The SS Ventnor sank off the Hokianga Harbour in 1902 after being chartered...

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Turkey recovers bodies of more trapped miners

Turkish rescue workers have recovered 10 bodies of miners trapped by a flooding accident last month, with search efforts continuing for eight still missing, reports said on Wednesday. A total of...

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Six more bodies recovered from Ermenek coal mine

Search teams reached the bodies of six more trapped miners in the flooded mine in Ermenek, central Turkey on early Nov. 18 Hurriyet Daily News reported. Eighteen miners were trapped underground...

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Hippo attack leaves two dead, 11 missing in Niger

At least two people died and around 11 schoolchildren were missing Monday after a hippopotamus attacked a boat on the Niger River near the capital Niamey, local authorities said. "We recovered the...

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US tourist tries to ship baby body parts home

A parcel delivery company in Thailand put three packages bound for the United States through a routine X-ray and made a startling discovery: five preserved human parts, including an infant’s head,...

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Building disaster resilience amidst rampant poverty

Of the thousands of landslide-prone villages he has visited and worked with, R M S Bandara, a high-ranking official from Sri Lanka’s National Building Resources Organisation (NBRO), says only one...

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Two more bodies found 21 days after Ermenek coal mine disaster

The bodies of two more miners were discovered on Monday in the Ermenek coal mine where flooding on Oct. 28 trapped a total of 18 workers. The Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate...

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Asbury Park: 160 years ago, a tragedy offshore

Most Jersey Shore residents know the story of the SS Morro Castle, the doomed ocean liner whose smoking hulk burned off an Asbury Park beach in 1934. But far fewer know the story of a much deadlier...

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Synagogue house collapse: Lagos releases bodies of 54 South Africans

The Lagos State government has released to South Africa the bodies of 54 South Africans who died in the collapsed building at the Synagogue of All Nations, after the bodies had been sorted out through...

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Rescue efforts in 14th day after Ermenek mine disaster

Search and rescue efforts are continuing on their 14th day in a flooded mine in the Emernek district of Karaman province, with little hope of finding trapped miners alive. Rescue units last week...

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21 miners confirmed dead from August mine explosion in China

The search for 21 miners trapped in a collapsed mine in east China's Anhui Province was concluded and all the missing were confirmed dead, authorities said. An explosion ripped through the Dongfang...

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57 die as bus collides with truck near Khairpur

Fifty-seven people, 17 women and 19 children among them, were killed when a Karachi-bound bus collided head-on with a coal-laden truck near the Therhi bypass on Gambhir Road a little before dawn on...

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South Korea ends Sewol ferry wreckage searches

South Korea on Tuesday ended underwater searches for nine bodies still missing from April's ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people in one of the country's deadliest disasters in decades. The...

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Sri Lanka to suspend recovery in landslide hit village

Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Minister Mahindananda Amaraweera said recovery operations in landslide hit Meeriyabedda village would probably be halted from Sunday. He said a final decision would...

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Flight MH17: More human remains recovered

More remains of victims were recovered at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site in eastern Ukraine Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Fighting has kept investigators from conducting...

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NYC's first 'Missing Persons Day' lets families expand DNA search

On Saturday New York City held a Missing Persons Day at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) at 421 26th Street and 1st Avenue, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There has been a statewide event in...

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