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Sunday, 17 November 2013

Dozens feared dead in plane crash in Russian city of Kazan

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Fifty-two people died as a passenger Boeing crashed while landing in the city of Kazan in central Russia on Saturday, according to the Em...

22 dead as mini truck overturns in Belgaum

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Around 4am Saturday, an overloaded canter overturned near Halaki cross on the Belgaum-Bagalkot state highway, killing at least 22 laboure...
Saturday, 16 November 2013

Health department moves to collect, identify bodies

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The Department of Health (DOH) has set up a quick system for managing the collection of bodies in the typhoon-ravaged areas of Leyte and ...

Leyte mayors prepare mass graves to protect the living

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On Friday, November 15, Melvin Lasi buried his grandfather a day after his body was found under the rubble of his neighbor’s house. It’s ...

Search for missing a hellish routine after typhoon

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John Lajara peers under a slab of crumbled concrete, lifts a sodden white teddy bear then drops it back into the filth. He reaches again ...

Bus tragedy: samples collected for DNA test

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Doctors from the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubli, have completed the task of collecting samples from the seven char...
Friday, 15 November 2013

Guatemalans use portraits, museum to seek missing

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As darkness fell over the peeling colonial houses of Guatemala City, eight young men and women crept through the streets carrying buckets...

Dealing with the dead in natural disasters

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Pictures of bodies lying in the streets of Tacloban and other areas of the Philippines hit by Typhoon Haiyan are one of the starkest imag...

Forensics experts to start identifying 'Yolanda' bodies on Saturday

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Starting Saturday, several teams of five members each, including a forensic expert and a photographer, will identify bodies in regions ha...

Greece: 12 migrants found dead after boat capsizes

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Twelve migrants were found dead Friday and 15 were rescued after a boat capsized in western Greece, authorities said. The coast guard ...

Typhoon Haiyan: WHO warns mass burial of storm victims violate human rights

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The embattled Philippine government is in a no-win situation in the aftermath of super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). One such quandary is ...

Gunmen torch vital records of rights group in El Salvador

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Gunmen in El Salvador early Thursday burst into the offices of a human rights agency that focuses on children missing from the country’s ...

Exodus of multitudes, mass body collections, fields of debris in Philippines; death toll at 3621

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The official death toll in the Philippines in the wake Typhoon Haiyan rose to 3,621 Friday, according to national disaster agency spokesma...
Thursday, 14 November 2013

Philippines releases official list of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) casualties

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The Philippines has launched a Web site where people searching for loved affected by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) can look into. The offic...

Myths and realities in disaster situations

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Myth: Dead bodies pose a health risk Reality: Contrary to popular belief, dead bodies pose no more risk of disease outbreak in the af...

Seven killed in Karnataka bus fire

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Seven passengers were burnt to death and 40 injured Thursday when a luxury bus headed to Mumbai caught fire after ramming into the railin...

Typhoon Haiyan: Tacloban’s convoy of the dead is turned back as the bodies pile up

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The rusting white truck began its grim journey shortly after 10.30am in the increasing heat of a tropical day. Negotiating its way over...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Cyclone death toll in Somalia's Puntland rises to 140

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The death toll from a tropical cyclone that hit Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region at the weekend has risen to 140, and the fi...

China reports deaths amid Typhoon Haiyan

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Seven people were killed and another four were missing as of 10 a.m. Tuesday as Typhoon Haiyan continued its progress through south China...

Foreign, local forensics experts joining NBI team in Tacloban

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Foreign and local experts will be joining the forensics team of the National Bureau of Investigation that will be leaving for Tacloban Ci...