Unidentified corpses pile up in Baja

Between 2013 and June of this year, Baja California medical examiners have been unable to identify more than 1100 cadavers presented to them for autopsy. Most of the unclaimed bodies have been...

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Archaeologists to exhume the bodies of over 100 unidentified Argentine soldiers on Falkland Islands

Archaeologists in Argentina are set to exhume the unidentified bodies of over 100 Argentine soldiers who were killed during the Falklands War. The Argentine Group of Anthropological Forensics (AGAF)...

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Lagos church collapse: Nigeria DNA samples difficult to match

Genetic testing to identify the remains of 84 South Africans killed in the Nigerian building collapse was extremely difficult, the Saturday Star reported. Dr Munro Marx, head of Stellenbosch University's...

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Debate over fate of sunken corpse ship from 1902 with 499 bodies on board continues

The S.S. Ventnor sank 112 years ago off the northern New Zealand coast, bearing unusual cargo: the exhumed bodies of 499 Chinese miners, some in wooden coffins and others in sealed zinc caskets. They...

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HMS Bulwark explosion centenary marked in Portsmouth

The 100th anniversary of a massive explosion that killed most of the 750 sailors on a Royal Navy battleship has been marked in Portsmouth. The huge blast ripped through HMS Bulwark in the Medway...

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Argentine forensic specialists identify three of the 30 bodies found in the mass graves

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, or EAAF, that is collaborating with the Mexican Government in the Ayotzinapa investigations, said Tuesday it identified three more bodies found in clandestine...

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Death toll rises in Nepal bus crash

The death toll from a bus crash in western Nepal has risen to 47, making it one of the country's deadliest road accidents in years, police said. Emergency workers pulled the bodies of 44 victims...

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