Monday, 19 May 2014

At least 23 dead, 18 injured in Brazil bus accident

May 19

A bus accident on a federal highway in the city of Caninde, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Ceara, left 23 people dead and 18 injured, authorities said. The injured, most of whom were seriously...

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At least 26 children killed in Colombia bus fire

May 19

At least 26 people, most believed to be children, were killed in northern Colombia when the bus they were travelling in caught fire. The accident happened on Sunday near the town of Fundacion near...

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Glacier giving up remains of 1952 Air Force plane crash

May 19

The Colony Glacier in Alaska is giving up the dead it has held in a frozen grave for 62 years. Little by little, the monster slab of ice is grinding out the remnants of an Air Force C-124A Globemaster,...

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Another body recovered from Meghna launch capsize

May 19

Another dead body was recovered from the Meghna River on Sunday, four days after passenger vessel MV Miraj-4 sank at Munshiganj’s Gazaria. Gazaria UNO ATM Mahbub Karim in the evening said the body...

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Bodies to be exhumed from Kitengela mass grave

May 19

Government pathologist Johanson Oduor says bodies and body parts from two mass graves discovered in Kitengela on Friday, will be exhumed today, Monday morning. There are fears that more bodies could...

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Death toll rises as worst floods in over a century hit Balkans

May 19

More than two dozen people are feared dead in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia after the worst floods in more than a century. Tens of thousands have fled their homes as several months of rain fell in...

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