In 2013, 110 found dead in Chennai bus terminal

Bus stations are meant to be transitory points but not usually for a final trip to the great beyond. And yet police have in the past year found the bodies of 110 people in the teeming Chennai Mofussil...

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US military helicopter crashes in Britain, munitions across site

British police said on Wednesday they would be working with the US Air Force and others to find out why a US military helicopter crashed on the coast of eastern England, killing all four crew on board....

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Goa building collapse: Death toll rises to 19

The death toll in Canacona building collapse has gone up to 19 after one more body was recovered, officials said. "One body was recovered last evening and another one late night, taking the death...

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NBI on Haiyan bodies: No choice but temporary burial

With no refrigerator vans for disaster victim identification (DVI) operations in Yolanda-hit areas, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said unprocessed bodies in advanced state of decomposition...

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Project to honour 'unrecorded' WW1 dead

A new project is being launched to honour hundreds of “forgotten” soldiers from both world wars who are not currently commemorated. The National Army Museum, in west London, has established a dedicated...

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Kegworth air disaster: The day disaster struck as passenger plane fell from the skies on to M1

The village of Kegworth is marking the 25th anniversary of a fatal air disaster with which its name will always be associated. On 8th January 1989, a British Midland flight from Heathrow to Belfast...

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