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Sunday, 24 February 2013

10 Killed, 17 Injured as tropical cyclone hits Madagascar

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Tropical cyclone Haruna and rains that lashed the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar killed 10 people and affected nearly 3 000 this week,...

17 unclaimed bodies buried 5 months after Pakistan factory fire that killed 259

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A Pakistani government official says authorities have buried 17 bodies that were never claimed after a factory fire killed 259 workers f...

After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown

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Perhaps one day Aiko and Kenji Nomura will laugh about the Birthday Cake Incident. It happened last autumn. Aiko, a care worker from th...

15 dead in Cianjur road accident

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The police report that 15 people have died in a road accident in Cianjur, West Java, after a truck loaded with lubricants experienced a...

10 killed in home collapse caused by explosion in south Vietnam

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A total of seven people were confirmed dead and three went missing after three houses in a small alley in south Vietnam's Ho Chi M...

UN Urged To Probe Matale Grave

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The United Nations (UN) has been called to assist in the investigations into the mass grave unearthed in Matale last year. In a writte...

Bus accident death toll reaches 19

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Death toll from the Friday’s bus accident rose to 19 as four bodies were recovered on Saturday from the flooded nullah where the vehicle...

No bodies found in capsized NS fishing boat

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A local dive team did not find any bodies during a search of the capsized Miss Ally off the coast of Nova Scotia, RCMP announced Saturday...

Bus plunges into canal, at least 13 dead

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At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and another 12 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a canal in Badhu S...

Eleven people die in accident on Winneba-Accra road

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Eleven people died on the spot and seven others sustained injuries when a 207 Benz Bus on which they were traveling for a funeral collide...
Friday, 22 February 2013

Heroes to the rescue

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The first three months of 2011 were an acid test for the Australian Capital Territory's 16-year-old urban search and rescue capabili...

After 7 years, Mexico may renew search for missing miners' bodies

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Mexico's new government is considering relaunching an abandoned rescue effort to reach the bodies of 63 miners in a coal mine in nor...
Thursday, 21 February 2013

Discoveries of crossers' bodies now at lowest level in 10 years

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The number of illegal immigrants' bodies found last year in the Arizona desert was the lowest in a decade. During federal fiscal y...

Last rites: Court allows Baldia fire bodies to be buried

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday finally allowed the burial of 18 unidentified bodies of the Baldia factory fire victims, but ordered...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Missing identified in SW China landslide

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Rescuers have identified the five people who went missing after a landslide in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The disaster struc...

Sri Lanka: The need for the preservation and proper inquiries into the remains of about 200 bodies found in the mass grave at Matale

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A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status...

Peru returns bodies of war victims to families

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Authorities in Peru's southern mountains have returned to their families the remains of 26 people killed in fighting between the army...

Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: ‘bodies must be recovered’

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On Tuesday, the seventh anniversary of the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) announced that it will beg...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Heavy rain suspends search for 5 miners

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Intermittent heavy rain forced the search for five miners trapped inside a mining pit of Semirara Mining Corp. in Caluya, Antique, to be ...

Yemeni military plane crashes in capital Sanaa, 12 dead

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A Yemeni air force plane crashed in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, security sources said. State news agency ...