China's drone-led search for earthquake survivors

Earlier this month, first responders in China used drones to determine the hardest-hit areas following a massive earthquake that killed more than 600 people, in one of the first displays of how drones...

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Benin closes all traditional morgues citing Ebola threat

The Beninese government has ordered the closure of all traditional morgues across the country to protect its population against the Ebola virus disease. The illegal structures that operate under...

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Building collapse kills at least 8 in South Africa

Eight South African workers died on Monday when a building under construction collapsed, and more people were feared trapped under the rubble, emergency workers said. The labourers were working...

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Bihar: Train rams autorickshaw at a manned railway crossing, 18 killed

At least eighteen people were killed after Dehradun-Gorakhpur Rapti Ganga Express rams an autorickshaw in Bihar`s Motihari district on Monday. Reports alleged that all who have died in the mishap belong...

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2010 Mangalore air crash: ‘Identification of bodies was a disaster after air crash’

In the early hours of May 22, 2010, Air India Express flight (from Dubai to Mangalore) overshot the runway and exploded into flames as it plummeted down the valley at Bajpe. The issue of identification...

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