24 Bangladeshi victims buried in Libya

At least 24 Bangladeshis are believed to have been buried in Libya following the capsize of two boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast three days ago. “The bodies recovered so far...

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Libya boat disaster death toll climbs to 119

The death toll has risen to 119 due to the capsizing Friday of two boats carrying illegal migrants after the Libyan Coast Guard discovered 39 additional bodies, local authorities said Sunday. On...

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Another body recovered after Benguet landslide

Authorities have recovered another body following a landslide in Barangay Taneg in Mankayan, Benguet. The landslide, which occurred during the onslaught of Typhoon Ineng (international name: Goni),...

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7 bodies wash up on Libya beach: Red Crescent

Another boat carrying refugees has sunk off Libya and the bodies of at least seven people have been washed up, Libya's Red Crescent said on Sunday. "We were alerted that a boat had sunk and that...

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29 killed in South Africa bus crash

A bus drove off a cliff, killing 35 people on board in Eastern Cape province on Saturday, authorities said. Only nine of the 44 passengers survived the horror crash, Xinhua reported citing the...

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Death toll from migrant disaster 117, 185 still missing

Rescue workers have recovered 12 more bodies off the Libyan coast, raising the death toll from the latest disaster for migrants trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean to 117, Libyan...

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Update: 71 bodies of refugees found in Austria lorry

Police in Austria say the bodies of 71 people, thought to be migrants, were found in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway on Thursday. The bodies of 59 men, eight women and four children are...

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Tide of death: Libya struggles to cope as migrants' bodies wash ashore

They set out full of hope, clutching a few cherished belongings, or the hand of a loved one as they stepped onto the overcrowded, barely seaworthy boats they thought would take them to new lives...

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Half of Trigana crash victims identified

The National Police said its Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team had managed to identify only 27 bodies of the 54 people on board the Trigana Air plane that crashed in Oksibil, Papua, on Sunday....

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August 30, 1965: Worst avalanche disaster in Switzerland’s history.

Workers on the hydro electric scheme in the Saas Valley, high up in the Swiss Alps, had just finished up for the day and were settling down in their barracks when they were struck by an icy blast of...

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2 migrant boats capsize off Libyan coast, hundreds feared dead

Two boats carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, with hundreds feared dead, a news report said on Friday. More than 100 bodies had been taken to hospital in the nearest town of Zuwara...

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Fort Kochi boat tragedy death toll rises to 10

With the recovery of two more bodies on Friday, the death toll in Fort Kochi's boat tragedy rose to 10, police said. The Marine Enforcement found the body of a man who has not been identified yet....

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Truck with 50 dead refugees found in Austria

Austrian police found the decomposing bodies of up to 50 migrants in an abandoned truck, sparking a cross-border hunt for the people-smugglers responsible for the latest tragedy in Europe's migrant...

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Miner’s body found; ‘Ineng’ death toll now 22

The body of another miner was retrieved on Tuesday, the fifth day of search for survivors of a massive landslide that swept a small-scale mining camp in Mankayan town, this province. The wife and...

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Bodies of 50 migrants found in hull of boat rescued off Libyan coast

About 50 bodies were found in the hull of a migrant boat that was rescued off Libya’s northern coast on Wednesday, adding to the more than 2,400 people who have perished at sea this year making the...

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Dozens of bodies remain unidentified decade after Katrina

When Reginald Washington returned to the Lower Ninth Ward months after the storm, he could barely find his daughter's home. All he could see was a 200-foot long barge with a steel hull. "This is...

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Tianjin blasts: Death toll mounts to 135

The death toll from a warehouse blast in north China's major port city of Tianjin has risen to 135 while 38 people were still listed missing in the country's worst industrial tragedy, officials said...

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Greek Coast Guard search for 4 still missing after capsize

Two Greek coast guard vessels are searching the waters off the eastern coast of the island of Lesbos for four people still missing after a dinghy carrying migrants or refugees capsized while making...

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Katrina's unclaimed dead conjure memories of her ravages

A decade after one of the most deadly storms in U.S history, Hurricane Katrina's forgotten victims lie in 83 caskets entombed in black granite mausoleums behind the gothic gates of a New Orleans...

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Cyprus begins recovery of wreckage of military plane and human remains 41 years after its crash

Cypriot authorities have started recovering the debris of a Greek military transport plane 41 years after it crashed, an official said on Monday. Crews started an excavation of a man-made...

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Death toll in China's Tianjin blast rises to 129

The death toll from a series of explosions nearly two weeks ago that rocked the northern port city of Tianjin has risen to 129. There are still 44 people missing and 610 are in hospital, 39 of them...

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Search resumes for 12 missing Philippine miners

Rescue teams on Monday resumed their search for the 12 miners reported missing after landslides cascaded down their shanties in Benguet province in the Cordillera Administrative Region in the Northern...

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No new victims found when plane that crashed at UK airshow lifted

No new victims were located Monday after the wreckage of a vintage jet plane that crashed on a highway was lifted, police in England said. Up to 200 people have raised concerns over missing friends...

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11 now feared dead in English Airshow crash

Officials have now identified 11 people who are “highly likely to have died” after a military jet crashed into a busy roadway during an airshow in southern England on Saturday. The military jet crashed...

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The Morewood Lake Disaster

It was set to be an exceptional year in the ice business. Early the year before, George Shand and Everett Lesure had purchased the Morewood Lake Ice Co., and were anxious to increase profitability...

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Typhoon Ineng leaves 35 dead, missing

The death toll from the heavy rains brought by Typhoon Ineng (Goni) went up to 15 yesterday as rescuers retrieved four bodies among the miners trapped in a landslide in Mankayan, Benguet. The Benguet...

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Malaysia finds 24 more bodies of human trafficking victims

Malaysian police say they have found another 24 bodies of suspected human trafficking victims in jungles bordering Thailand. Authorities in May said they discovered 139 suspected graves in abandoned...

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Technology a vital tool in identifying remains

It’s almost a cliché: The body was identified through dental records. That has been easier said than done in B.C. until very recently and is still problematic in much of Canada. Canadian authorities...

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12 bodies identified after Papua plane crash

Indonesian police have identified 12 of the victims of a Trigana Air crash in its Papua region a week ago. The identification of victims from a Trigana Air plane that crashed last week in Pegunungan...

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Netherlands: Urk fisherman identified after more than 47 years

[Translated from Dutch] More than 47 years after the Urk fishing vessel UK 91 with five crew on board perished, one of the passengers has been identified as 28-year-old Albert Zwaan. He remained...

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