Kathore Link Road accident: 25 bodies handed over to heirs after DNA identification

The bodies of 20 victims of the Kathore Link Road accident were handed over to their families on Thursday, after their identification through the DNA tests. As many as 62 people were burned alive...

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Cops to electronically screen photos of unclaimed bodies

In order to help identify unclaimed bodies, the North region of the Mumbai police, extending from Goregaon to Dahisar, is planning to electronically display photographs of unidentified bodies in public....

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38 illegal migrants feared dead as trawler capsizes

At least 38 people are feared dead after an overcrowded fishing trawler, carrying Malaysia-bound illegal migrants, capsized in the Kutubdia channel of the Bay of Bengal in the early hours yesterday....

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Malaysia declares MH370 disappearance an ‘accident’, paves way for compensation payments

Malaysia declared yesterday the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 an accident, clearing the way for the airline to pay compensation to victims’ relatives while the search for the plane...

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Fishermen discover two bodies and luggage from doomed AirAsia flight 1,000km from the search zone

Local fisherman have found two bodies and a passenger's bag 1,000km from the AirAsia QZ8501 crash zone, while the Indonesia search and rescue agency temporarily suspended the Java Sea search for...

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Mozambique: Flood Death Toll Now 117

The known death toll from the floods in central and northern Mozambique has risen to 117, according to the latest report from the Ministry of State Administration and the Public Service, which supervises...

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70th anniversary of Paymaster mining disaster

Who knew what Hector Poitras was thinking that cold February morning in 1945, when he stepped onto the cage at the Paymaster No. 5 shaft getting ready to ride down into the mine with his co-workers? It...

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AirAsia flight QZ8501: Indonesia's Basarnas says to continue search for crash victims

Indonesia's search and rescue agency Basarnas said at a press conference on Wednesday it will continue to search for the bodies of the passengers of Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501, a day after the...

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Indonesian military stops search and recovery for remains of AirAsia QZ8501

The Indonesian military said Tuesday that it was stopping its efforts to recover the remains of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 almost a month after the commercial jet crashed into the sea. Indonesia's search...

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Indian government order: Dispose of unclaimed bodies after 10 days

A recent government order has made it mandatory for all government hospitals in the State to dispose of unclaimed dead bodies after 10 days. Earlier, they were allowed to retain unclaimed bodies...

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Spain: 10 dead, 21 hurt in crash of Greek F-16 jet at base

A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other aircraft on the ground during NATO training in southeastern Spain Monday, killing at least 10 French and Greek military personnel, Spanish Prime Minister...

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Nine killed in road accident in central Uganda

At least nine people were killed on Sunday in a road accident in the central Ugandan district of Luwero. Lameck Kigozi, the Savannah regional police spokesperson, told Xinhua by telephone that...

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Liverpool John Moores University's facial reconstruction lab to open this month

Facial reconstructions of wanted criminals and unidentified corpses will be made in Liverpool from next week after the official opening of the city’s Face Lab. The pioneering facility, part of...

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'That’s not just a bone, it’s a person, we don’t lose track of that': British Columbia's Coroners team excels at giving names back to unidentified bodies

Last Thursday, Brian Howe got a phone call that he said “put to rest 40 years of uncertainty.” In 1975, his younger brother Roy Lynn Howe disappeared from his Vancouver home at the age of 26. As...

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QZ8501: Two more bodies identified

Two more passengers of flight QZ8501 have been identified by Indonesian authorities. In a statement today, AirAsia said the disaster victim identification department identified the two victims as...

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AirAsia flight QZ8501: four more bodies recovered from wreckage

Four more bodies were recovered from the wreckage of AirAsia flight 8501 on Saturday but Indonesian salvage teams failed to raise the fuselage of the crashed passenger jet from the sea bed. Rescuers...

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Disaster exposes Mutoko nightmare

The incessant torrents washed away bridges in the area and turned mostly dusty roads into gorges, locking the people of this area away from the rest of the world. Up to now, the bridges remain unrepaired...

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To keep planes from disappearing, NTSB urges constant tracking

In a response to recent incidents in which large commercial airliners have vanished into oceans, the National Transportation Safety Board is calling for new regulations requiring all passenger planes...

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Road accident in Arunachal Pradesh kills at least 11 labourers

At least eleven labourers were killed on Friday and several others got seriously injured, including three critically, when a vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge near Sessa along...

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60 years on - eyewitness remembers Birmingham's worst train crash

Birmingham's worst train disaster happened on a wintry afternoon at Sutton Coldfield railway station 60 years ago. On January 23, 1955, an express train carrying around 300 passengers derailed on...

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At least 14 people killed in highway accident in Mexico

At least 14 people died and 19 others were injured Thursday when a bus collided with a freight truck in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, authorities said. The accident happened before dawn...

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Indonesian divers find 6 bodies in fuselage of crashed AirAsia jet

For the first time, Indonesian divers were able Friday to enter the fuselage of the AirAsia jetliner that crashed last month into the Java Sea and retrieved six bodies, an official said. The operations...

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Highway accident: Forensic experts complete collection of DNA samples

A team of the National Forensic Science Agency of the National Police Bureau has collected the samples of the victims of the tragic accident on Kathore Link Road and their heirs for the DNA identification...

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AirAsia Flight 8501: Five more bodies found, divers might reach the wreckage

Divers found five bodies of passengers of AirAsia Flight 8501 belted to their seats near the plane’s fuselage in the Java Sea on Thursday, an Indonesian official said, according to Agence France-Presse...

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Fire in shop-house kills eight in South Sulawesi, DVI team identifies victims

A fire gutted a shop in Sungguminasa, Gowa regency, South Sulawesi, early on Tuesday, killing eight people, six of whom died from burn injuries while two died from inhaling toxic fumes. According...

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Zimbabwe: 9 more bus crash victims identified

Police have identified nine more people who died during Sunday’s horrific crash along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway, bringing to 25 the number of victims who have been identified so far. The other...

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DNA tests fail to identify charred bodies in search for 43 missing Mexican students

Mexican prosecutors said Tuesday that an Austrian forensics lab has been unable to find any more DNA that could be used by conventional means to identify charred remains that might be those of 42...

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