Mumbai railway cop gives dignity to unclaimed bodies

They may have had to lead their lives alone, but Nayna Devekar ensures that they have somebody with them at least on their final journey. What’s more, Devekar makes sure that the last rites are conducted...

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Bangladesh ferry death toll rises to 79

The death toll in Bangladesh's MV Mostafa ferry disaster rose to 79, according to the latest official count of bodies recovered. On the river Padma, near Shivalaya Upazila sub-district, the motor...

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Planned Canadian DNA data bank to link missing persons with unidentified remains

Canada’s much-anticipated DNA data bank for linking missing persons with unidentified remains has been heralded as a powerful new tool to identify the nameless and help put killers behind bars. The...

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Afghanistan avalanche dead crosses 200

At least 100 more people were reported dead in avalanches in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, bringing the total death toll since Wednesday morning to at least 230 people, Afghan officials told....

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Church collapse: DNA expert explains how Nigeria bodies were matched to families

Pathologists that conducted DNA testing on the Nigeria building collapse victims, Unistel Medical Laboratories, cannot say with certainty that families received correct bodies. The firm's managing...

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Avalanche in Afghanistan kills at least 124 people

At least 124 people have died in north-eastern Afghanistan, after heavy winter snow caused an avalanche which buried and killed residents across four provinces. Panjshir province, around 60 miles...

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Seven more bodies pulled out, Padma ferry disaster deaths climb to 78

Seven more bodies were pulled out from the river in Manikganj’s Shibalay and Harirampur Upazilas on Wednesday morning. Six of the bodies were identified and handed over to their families, Paturia...

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India: Camp to find missing people, identify bodies

Ten police units from the adjoining districts will come together for the first time for identifying missing people and unidentified bodies during a two-day camp at the Bhimashankar hall of Pune rural...

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One more AirAsia victim identified

The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team of the Bhayangkara Police Hospital in Surabaya has identified the body of a female passenger of AirAsia flight QZ8501 that plunged into the Karimata Strait,...

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Bangladesh ferry disaster death toll rises

The death toll in Bangladesh's passenger ferry tragedy on the river Padma in Manikganj, near Dhaka, has risen to 72. Two more dead bodies were unofficially claimed, soon after official announcement...

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Bangladesh: Rescue operation called off, ferry pulled out to the bank

Manikganj Deputy Commissioner has called off the rescue operation after passenger ferry ML Mostofa was pulled out and turned around near the banks of the river Padma. Deputy Commissioner Rashida...

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Ten passengers die as van catches fire near Nooriabad

At least ten passengers were burnt to death and ten others injured when a van overturned and its CNG cylinder exploded near Nooriabad town in Jamshoro district late Sunday night, Dunya News reported....

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Families of Lagos victims cannot live without certainty

The tragedy of the death of 84 South Africans at a Nigerian church in Lagos last year is far from over, the pain is nowhere near its end. One family whose daughter was among those killed when a building...

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At least 41 dead after overcrowded ferry sinks in Bangladesh river

An overcrowded ferry has sunk in a Bangladesh river leaving at least 41 people including 11 children dead as rescuers search for missing passengers. The ferry collided with a cargo vessel and sank...

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Bangladesh ferry capsizes with 100 passengers on board

A Bangladeshi ferry carrying more than 100 passengers capsized on Sunday in the Padma river, 70 km (44 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka, police said. Bidhan Tripura, police superintendent of Manikganj...

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Dukki mine disaster: Bodies of seven miners recovered on fourth day

At least seven dead bodies of laborers have been recovered today (Sunday) from a coal mine in Duki area of Loralai, Dunya News reported. According to sources, fourth day of evacuating the laborers...

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Bus overturns in western Indonesia, killing 18

Police say a crowded bus overturned on a toll road on Indonesia’s main island of Java and 18 people were killed. Java police Lt. Col. Pungki Bhuwana says about 50 other passengers were injured in...

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10 workers dead in Abu Dhabi building fire

In one of the worst fires in the UAE, 10 people were killed and eight injured in an early morning blaze in the capital’s Musaffah area at a local tyre shop located in a two-storey building on Friday....

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Efforts to retrieve 7 coal miners bodies in Duki still underway

A rescue operation is still underway to retrieve the dead bodies of the seven coal miners who are trapped in 2,200-feet deep coalmine at Duki Coalfield in Loralai district. The coalmine collapsed...

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No sign of Cemfjord bodies during survey, say investigators

An underwater survey of the Cemfjord, which sank in the Pentland Firth nearly two months ago, saw no sign of the missing crew’s bodies. And investigators from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch...

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Genetic bank operated by families of missing Mexicans

The lack of response by the Mexican government on the issue of missing people in the country has pushed many of the victims' families into becoming genuine experts on research and forensic science...

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Nigerian church collapse: family questions identification of victim

The family of a Nigerian church collapse victim has given government officials an ultimatum – grant us permission to conduct our own DNA tests or face court. In a letter to the director-general...

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Bodies of Nigerian church collapse victims examined by families

Most of the KwaZulu-Natal families whose relatives died in the Lagos church building disaster on Thursday said they were certain they had buried the correct bodies as they had examined them before...

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Chinese New Year celebrations, AirAsia Victim Identification QZ8501 closed

Out of respect for the celebration of Chinese New Year , the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team will postpone the victim identification process of AirAsia plane QZ8501 in the hospitals in Surabaya....

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Eleven killed, 30 injured in North Korean sinkhole collapse

Eleven people-most of them women-were killed and around 30 injured in North Korea when earth they were plowing collapsed beneath them, according to a source inside the country. The workers had...

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Geotagging could help find missing persons

As cyclones bear down on parts of northern Australia, people are being urged to switch on geotagging on their mobile phones to help emergency services track them down in the case of an emergency. The...

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Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus: Greek-Cypriot Missing from the 1974 Turkish Invasion Identified

The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP), in a press conference held today at the Anthropological Laboratory in the UN-protected area of the now defunct Nicosia Airport, has announced it “identified...

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Missing Persons: Arizona has more than almost all other states

Stuart Somershoe's work as a Phoenix police detective is among the most painstaking and, often, gruesome, law enforcement work there is. “I work cold cases for missing and unidentified persons in...

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AirAsia flight QZ8501: Two more body parts identified

Two more body parts from a passenger of the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 were identified on Tuesday, bringing the total number of identified remains to 96 so far, East Java Police said. The Disaster...

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India bus crash kills 10 in Madhya Pradesh

At least 10 people have been killed after the bus they were travelling in plunged down a deep gorge in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh. Reports say the driver lost control of the bus in...

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11 Bayelsa politicians to receive mass burial

The 11 women leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that died in a motor accident along the East-West Road on Valentine’s Day will be given a mass burial. Checks by Daily Sun revealed that...

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At least 20 dead after power line falls on Haiti carnival float

At least 20 people were killed during a Carnival parade in Haiti’s capital early Tuesday when a music group’s float hit a low-hanging power line, causing them to be electrocuted, officials said. The...

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Thane GRP shows pics of 104 unclaimed bodies at railway stations to get them identified

In a bid to lessen the number of unclaimed bodies, the Thane government railway police (GRP) on Monday set up a camp at Thane station. From morning till 8 in the evening, its officers showed commuters...

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7 dead, 4 missing in floods in central Argentina

Seven people are dead and four others are missing in central Argentina after heavy rain led to street floods that swept up several people, including a 5-year-old girl. Civil Defense director Diego...

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No hope of more survivors in DR Congo boat sinking

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Sunday they had abandoned all hope of finding more survivors, after as many as 100 people went missing when their boat sank on the Congo River....

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13 bodies of victims of crashed AirAsia plane to be identified

As many as 13 bodies of victims of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 remain unidentified on the 50th day of identification process on Sunday as the bodies have gone beyond identification and DNA data...

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