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Thursday, 17 October 2013

Sri Lanka: 1700 persons registered missing after the Civil War

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The Mannar Citizen Committee – a voluntary organization is now involved in collecting details of persons missing in Kilinochchi and Jaffn...

Cyclone, flood toll rises to 38 in Odisha

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With flood waters receding in five districts, the Odisha government on Thursday stepped up relief and restoration work as the death toll...

Death toll in Central Visayas quake rises to 163, more bodies found in Bohol

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The number of fatalities from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that shook Central Visayas has climbed to 163 with 21 still missing, the Natio...

Typhoon Nari kills 11 in Vietnam, leaves 5 missing

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Rescuers have recovered more bodies after a typhoon flooded thousands of homes in Vietnam, raising the toll to 11 dead and five missing, ...

8 bodies recovered after Laos plane crash

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Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River on Thursday as officials in Laos ruled out finding survivors from a ...

Mexico finds missing plane; all 14 aboard dead

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Mexican military and civilian personnel on Wednesday reached the site on the Baja California peninsula where a small plane carrying 14 pe...

Japan typhoon: Rescuers search debris for missing

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Rescuers in Japan worked overnight and into Thursday looking for survivors of Typhoon Wipha, which has killed at least 18 people. Aro...

Body of missing Vittorio Missoni recovered from plane

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The remains of five people have been recovered from an airplane carrying a party that included Italian fashion industrialist Vittorio Mis...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Powerful earthquake hits near Papua New Guinea

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A powerful earthquake rocked the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, officials said. There were no immediate...

More bodies found in Bohol; quake death toll hits 151

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The death toll from the magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck Central Visayas ballooned to 151 as search and rescue teams recovered more ...

Plane crashes in Laos, 39 people killed

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A Lao Airlines plane on an internal flight from the capital, Vientiane, to the south of the country, crashed into the Mekong in the late ...

DNA from LA area immigrants could solve painful mysteries from Guatemala's civil war

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Javier Alvarez doesn’t remember much from the time his father went missing from their home in Guatemala in 1982, at the height of the vi...

Philippines quake toll hits 107

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The 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed the central island of Bohol on Tuesday morning, triggering landslides that engulfed entire homes, r...

Examining why hostesses and sex workers go missing in Japan

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On October 8, Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested two construction company employees for hiding a dead body found inside a building in Shi...

Cargo ship hits seawall off South Korea; 9 dead, 2 missing

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A cargo ship hit a seawall off South Korea's southeastern coast and partly sank in an accident that killed nine crew members and left...

Typhoon, mudslides kill 14 in Japan; 50 missing

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A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific co...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Search completed, no survivors found after Peru bus plunge

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No survivors have been found several days after a bus crash in an Andean region of Peru and authorities say that they have finished searc...

Philippine quake death toll rises to 93 (update)

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A powerful earthquake killed at least 93 people in the Philippines on Tuesday as it generated landslides that buried homes, triggered ter...

Rescue suspended for victims of Colombia building collapse

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Officials suspended their search Monday for workers missing in an apartment building collapse that claimed the lives of at least two peop...

Death toll rises from migrant accidents near Lampedusa

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Divers have found an additional 20 bodies from last week's shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa, raising the death toll to ...