Deadly illegal mining booms below South African City of Gold

Smoke rises from a derelict mine shaft 25 miles east of Johannesburg, where illegal miners cook, work and sleep below ground for weeks at a time. They have broken through a slab of concrete covering...

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Families protest opencast mine plans on site of Diglake disaster burial ground

Outraged descendants of miners who drowned in a colliery disaster staged a protest against plans to build an opencast mine on the site. The group waved banners outside the civic offices before Newcastle...

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More typhoon ‘Yolanda’ bodies found

Five months after Supertyphoon “Yolanda” leveled large swathes of the Eastern Visayas, dead bodies continue to turn up. Seven bodies were recovered in Tacloban City over the weekend as government...

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Mount Everest has claimed many lives

Mount Everest has recently claimed 16 lives from a deadly avalanche, which makes this the deadliest disaster that the mountain has ever seen in one day. Though this is a larger-than-usual tragedy,...

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Ideal procedure was not maintained in identifying Rana Plaza victims

Faced with an industrial disaster of an unprecedented scale, it was not possible to follow the ideal procedure of using DNA tests to identify the Rana Plaza victims, the chief of the national DNA lab...

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Indian Air Force to set up high-risk crew’s DNA database

In a first, the Indian Air Force has initiated a project for DNA profiling of its personnel, selecting a high-risk group of aircrew that undertakes dangerous missions for the first round. A database...

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South Korea's ferry crash: 159 bodies found, 143 still missing

The death toll from South Korea’s ferry crash has reached 159, with 143 people still missing, the coastal guard of the Chindo island said. The search and rescue team say that the bodies of the missing...

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