Tropical Storm Jangmi: 53 Dead In Philippines As Rains Bring Flooding, Landslides To Islands

The death toll from flooding and landslides in the Philippines wrought by tropical storm Jangmi rose to 53 on Wednesday, officials said, with some regions saying they were caught off guard by the deluge....

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Liberia Ebola victims can be buried after cremation decree relaxed

Liberia's government has purchased a plot of land to form a graveyard for Ebola victims, relaxing a much-contested order that all Ebola victims' bodies must be cremated. Ciatta Bishop, head of the...

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AirAsia QZ8501: Bad weather hampers recovery of bodies

Efforts to locate victims and wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 which crashed into the Java Sea in Indonesia on Sunday are being hampered by stormy weather and strong tides. Indonesian officials...

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China factory explosions kill 17 workers

A gas explosion at an auto parts factory in southern China killed 17 people and injured 33 others on Wednesday, state media reported. Three of the injured were in critical condition, the official...

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How will the AirAsia QZ8501 victims be identified? Indonesian Police begin search for DNA evidence

Hospitals in Surabaya, Indonesia, were preparing Tuesday to receive and identify bodies recovered in the Java Sea that Indonesian officials said may have come from the wreckage of the missing AirAsia...

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AirAsia QZ8501: Multiple bodies, wreckage recovered in search for missing plane

An Indonesian warship has recovered three bodies from the sea in the search for the AirAsia jet, Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency says. Earlier in the day, a navy spokesman told the...

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Norman Atlantic ferry fire: 12 confirmed dead, 41 people unaccounted for as rescue operation wraps up on ferry burning in Adriatic

Two Albanian seamen who took part in the rescue operation for the Norman Atlantic ferry have died from injuries incurred in an accident, raising the death toll from the fire to 12. The Italian navy...

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Human bones discovered on Gaspé peninsula ‘witnesses to a tragic event’

The human bones arrived in a cardboard box and the investigators scrutinized them one by one: About a dozen long bones, more than 25 vertebrae, pieces of a jawbone. Laid out on a long, rectangular...

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Police to conduct DNA tests to identify Bhiwandi fire victims

The Narpoli police will carry out DNA tests to identify the eight workers who died in the Bhiwandi warehouse blaze on Saturday. Early Saturday morning in Bhiwandi, a city in the Indian state of...

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Italy ferry: 'Up to 38 still missing' amid confusion over Norman Atlantic passenger list, death toll rises to 8

The death toll in the Italian car ferry fire shipwreck in the Adriatic climbed to eight today as a Greek report said as many as 38 people may still be missing. The latest figures released by the...

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Fire in Lahore shopping centre leaves 13 dead, 2 injured

A fire broke out in Khalid Plaza, Al-Kareem Market of Urdu Bazar near Lohari Gate, Lahore on Monday evening apparently due to a short circuit in which 13 people, including a woman, were killed and...

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China: Beijing scaffold collapse kills 10, injures 4

Ten people were killed and four were injured following a scaffold collapse in a Beijing school on Monday morning, local sources said. The accident happened at around 8:30 a.m. at a construction...

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Italy ferry: Death toll rises to seven as evacuation ends

The death toll following a fire on the Norman Atlantic ferry off Corfu has risen to seven, with the evacuation of all those on board now complete. One man was killed when trying to escape the ship,...

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The Tay Bridge rail disaster, 135 years on

It was, said the Glasgow Herald on a Monday morning exactly 135 years ago, a catastrophe of the most appalling description. The night before - Sunday, December 28, 1879 - the central span of the...

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Indonesia set to resume search for missing AirAsia plane, relatives wait

Indonesia was set to resume at first light the search for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, which went missing on Sunday just after the pilot...

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Gaul tragedy: Relative 'will not rest' until UK sends DNA team to Russia

Relatives of the Gaul trawler victims are still trying to persuade the Government to send a team to Russia to check the DNA of human remains. The Foreign Office has so far ruled out sending experts...

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Survivors, dead from sunken ship arrive in Busan

The bodies of those who died after a Korean fishing trawler sank earlier this month in the Bering Sea arrived in Busan on Friday, nearly a month after the accident. The 1,753-ton Oryong 501 capsized...

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Candles, prayers and tears as Asia mourns tsunami dead 10 years on

Tearful mourners lit candles on Friday to remember the 220,000 people who died a decade ago when tsunami waves devastated coastal areas along the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters...

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9 killed, 10 missing in Sri Lanka mudslides

At least nine people were killed and 10 others were missing in mudslides triggered by heavy rains Friday in the central hills of Sri Lanka, officials said. More than 60,000 people have been evacuated...

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At least 30 dead in DRCongo river-boat accident

At least 30 people died when an overcrowded boat hit a rock and sank on the Congo river, sparking riots in which angry youths on the rampage set fire to public buildings, officials said Friday. "There...

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Refugees drown in attempted Sudanese smuggling

At least eight asylum-seekers have drowned trying to cross a river in Sudan during an attempt to smuggle them out of a refugee camp, the UN refugee agency said Thursday. The accident happened as...

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Hundreds of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami have still not been identified

With the bodies of almost 400 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami still unidentified a decade on, Thai police were holding out little hope of gleaning any new information from opening a cargo container...

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10 killed in Jhalakati bus plunge

At least ten people have been killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakati on Tuesday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not...

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Ten years of tsunami: Disaster management still a pipe dream?

C. G. Kanagasundaram of Kameswaram, 11 km away from Nagapattinam, was the only person to run eastwards on December 26, 2004, when residents from coastal villages were on an exodus in the opposite direction....

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Aichi doctors to form disaster teams to examine corpses

An association of doctors in Aichi Prefecture, plans to create teams next spring that specialize in examining the bodies of victims in major natural disasters and accidents, according to people familiar...

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One more body recovered from village Saddal in Udhampur

The rescue teams today recovered one more body of a woman, among 40 persons who got buried in landslide hit village Saddal in Udhampur district during flash floods on September 7. "One more corpse...

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Another family joins lawsuit against JPAC for recovery of remains from WWII

Another family has filed suit against the Defense Department POW/MIA accounting agencies seeking the identification and return of remains. Sally Hill Jones — niece and next of kin of a missing World...

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10 years after tsunami, victim's mom learns body wasn't lost

Of all the moments to chase a dream, May Aye Nwe chose the morning of Dec. 26, 2004. A child of rural Myanmar, she boarded a small boat seeking a better life in Thailand, just as the Indian Ocean...

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services mark 104th anniversary of Pretoria Pit disaster

Three poignant memorial services were held for the 344 men and boys who were killed in Lancashire’s worst ever mining tragedy. Young and old gathered at the Pretoria Pit disaster monument on the...

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