10 die as landslide strikes Sikh temple

A landslide struck a popular Sikh temple complex in northern India on Tuesday, killing at least ten people and wounding 10 others, police said. Rescue workers equipped with cutting equipment...

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China landslide victims mourned, 52 remain missing

More than 700 people mourned the deaths of at least 12 people in a mudslide that engulfed a mining community in north-western China six days ago, state media reported on Tuesday. Fifty-two people...

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3 specialist doctors to help identification of Trigana victims

The National Police said on Tuesday they had dispatched three Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) personnel to help identify the bodies of 54 people from a Trigana Air plane that crashed in Oksibil,...

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Bad weather hinders evacuation of bodies from site of Indonesia plane crash

Rescuers on Tuesday reached the site in eastern Indonesia where a passenger plane slammed into a mountain over the weekend. Heavy fog and bad weather hampered rescuers Wednesday trying to evacuate...

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Bodies of 49 migrants who died of asphyxiation arrive in Italy

The 49 bodies of the migrants who died from asphyxiation in the hold of an overcrowded fishing boat off the Italian coast over the weekend arrived in Sicily on Monday. The Norwegian Frontex coastguard...

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Arizona: Finding migrants, or their remains

Anne Norris said her son, Andrew, had a close and loving relationship with his father in the short time they were together before the laws and perils of migration pulled them apart. "He wouldn't...

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August 1985: The worst month for air disasters

August 1985 witnessed more passenger and crew deaths on commercial airlines than any other month. What made it so deadly and what changed as a result? There are many grim landmarks in the history...

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