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Monday, 15 July 2013

Uttarakhand: Machines to dig out hundreds of buried bodies

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A month has passed since Uttarakhand was swamped by the rain-flood tragedy, and hundreds of bodies and animal carcasses still lie buried ...

Sichuan: Landslide victims identified by DNA

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Ten victims of a landslide in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, last Wednesday have been identified by DNA comparisons. "Medics collect...

Canada rail disaster official death toll hits 35

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Two more bodies were found on Sunday in downtown Lac-Megantic, the Quebec town devastated when an oil tanker train derailed and exploded,...
Sunday, 14 July 2013

Uttarakhand floods: When accounting for the missing is not such a disaster

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The 15 officials at the missing persons cell, set up on June 27 in the wake of the disaster that swept through Uttarakhand, knew that the...

11 Somalis drown in smuggler's boat tragedy

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Eleven Somalis drowned and another 34 are missing after a smugglers' boat headed for Yemen capsized in the Gulf of Aden earlier this...

Dead identified in Russian bus tragedy

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Russian authorities say the bodies of 18 people who were killed in a horrific road accident in Moscow have been identified by their relat...

Death toll of floods in Sichuan province rises to 43, 150 missing

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Floods triggered by some of the heaviest rain in decades have cut off access to several villages in central Sichuan province since early ...

Five more bodies found in Lac-Megantic, raising death toll to 33

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Five more bodies were recovered in Lac-Megantic, Que. Saturday as crews continue to search the area devastated by last week’s deadly trai...
Saturday, 13 July 2013

18 dead as passenger bus collides with truck in Moscow

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More than a dozen people were killed, including a child, and over 60 injured as a truck crashed into the side of a passenger bus in Mosco...

Disaster-prone salt range: Ten perish in motorway bus crash

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Another deadly bus accident in the salt range near Kallar Kahar occurred on Friday, when a passenger bus overturned on the motorway, kill...

Death toll in Canada rail crash up to 28

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THE death toll from the Lac-Megantic train disaster has risen to 28 after four more bodies were pulled from rubble of the devastated Cana...

France train crash: Looters 'picking through the wreckage' of intercity express

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A faulty rail joint is being blamed for yesterday's French train crash that left six people dead and 30 injured. As rescue workers ...
Friday, 12 July 2013

Train crash near Paris: 'at least seven dead'

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The inter-city train crashed around 5.15pm local time on Friday in the suburb of Brétigny-sur-Orge, around 16 miles south of the French c...

Secunderabad hotel collapse: Police to conduct DNA profiling of unclaimed bodies

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The city police have decided to conduct DNA fingerprinting profiling of three unidentified bodies which were retrieved from under the deb...

30 killed, over 100 missing in rains and landslides in China

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At least 30 people were killed and over 100 went missing in China when rain-triggered natural disasters wreaked havoc across the country ...

24 bodies found in Canada train wreck with 26 still missing

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Four more bodied have been found in the wreckage of the town center in a small town in Quebec, Canada following a fuel-carrying train cra...
Thursday, 11 July 2013

4 bodies yet to be identified after Secunderabad hotel collapse

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Three days after the City Light Hotel collapsed in Hyderabad, relatives of four victims are yet to be informed about the death of their l...

Ship owner offers reward for tip leading to the recovery of six of its missing crewmen

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The owner firm of Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Hope yesterday offered a $6,000 reward for the information leading to the recovery of six o...

FASE Advanced Course on Postmortem Interval and the FASE 10th Anniversary Symposium, Heidelberg, Germany, 26-28th Sept 2013

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This year FASE celebrates its 10th anniversary and we decided to celebrate it along with the FASE Advanced Course on Postmortem Interval,...

Search for China landslide missing in Sichuan

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The death toll from a landslide caused by heavy rain in China's Sichuan province has risen to 12, state media report, with 11 people ...