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Monday, 5 August 2013

Malaysia ends search for 33 Indonesians missing at sea

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Malaysian rescuers said on Monday they would stop searching for 33 Indonesians missing at sea, more than four days after their boat sank ...

‘It was an act of God’

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The Rana Plaza victims were cheated out of their rightful dues by the BGMEA that worked out the compensation package by profiling the ind...

How Kenyan hospitals abet the illicit body parts trade

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Kenyan hospitals are reluctant to adopt technology to identify unclaimed bodies thereby giving room for illicit body parts business to th...

Photos of missing persons will be displayed till Friday

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The display of pictures of missing persons and unidentified dead bodies that was put up at the rural police headquarters at Adgaon from A...

Underwater CCTV cameras fail to give clues in Punjab bus mishap case

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Closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, installed in the Bhakra Main Line (BML) canal at the Khanauri head for identifying floating dea...

Punjab bus tragedy: 15 bodies recovered

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A Punjab Roadways bus travelling from Delhi to Amritsar fell into the Bhakra canal in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib District around 2 am o...
Sunday, 4 August 2013

A day’s toil in the suicide bombers’ graveyard

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In a city with no shortage of hard jobs, Khwaja Naqib Ahmad lays claim to one of the toughest of all — burying the unclaimed dead. Mr. ...

Death toll of flash floods in Eastern Afghanistan rises to 58

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Heavy rains swept across eastern Afghanistan, leveling homes and killing at least 58 people in five provinces, while an estimate 30 other...

Malaysian rescuers recover three bodies; 37 missing at sea

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Malaysian rescuers today found three bodies at sea as hopes faded for 37 other Indonesians who went missing days earlier when their boat ...
Saturday, 3 August 2013

Vehicle loaded with maize crushes 14 children, injures nine in Barkin Ladi

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Tragedy struck in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State on Saturday as fourteen children were killed and nine others serious...

Over 40 die in Surobi flash floods in Kabul province

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Dozens of people including women and children lost their lives, and hundreds of houses were destroyed following flash floods in Surobi di...

9 missing after boat sinks off Vietnam metro coast

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One person is confirmed dead and eight other are still missing after a boat carrying 30 passengers, including two foreigners, capsized of...

Rescuers yet to find more survivors of capsized boat off Johor coast

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The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has yet to find any survivors or bodies of the 40 people who were onboard a boat which s...

Punjab bus mishap: 13 bodies recovered so far

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Bodies of 13 people, who were on board the ill-fated bus which fell into Bhakra canal on July 31, have been recovered so far. Eight d...
Friday, 2 August 2013

At least 10 killed in heavy Sudan flooding

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Widespread flooding in Sudan has claimed the lives of at least 10 people as authorities warned of a looming humanitarian crisis. Proper...

The cave with a thousand coffins: Chinese leave wooden caskets to rot away in the belief it will allow the souls of the departed into heaven

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Hundreds of thousands of wooden coffins are left to slowly rot away in dank Chinese caves in the belief it will let the souls of the depa...

Day after Punjab bus tragedy, relatives look for bodies

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A day after at least 27 people were feared drowned when a Delhi-Amristar bus crashed into the Bhakra Main Line (BML) canal near Sirhind i...

Seven decades after World War II, the search for Germany’s War dead continues

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This weekend, German officials will travel to Russia for the opening of the latest in a long line of war cemeteries containing the graves...

Ghana’s dancing pallbearers

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Benjamin Aidoo has brought his dancing pallbearers to more than 200 funerals in Ghana, easing loved ones to their final resting places to...

Sirhind bus mishap: Death toll rises to 4

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The death toll in Sirhind bus mishap has risen to four with divers retrieving two more bodies from the canal on Thursday even as chances ...