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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Longboat capsize: Death toll now 10

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The death toll in the boat mishap here last Saturday rose to 10 today with the recovery of another body from the Lassa River. The body...
Monday, 20 January 2014

19 dead in Upper Egypt road crash

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Nineteen people have died in a collision involving a truck and a minibus on a rural highway in southern Egypt, a local health ministry of...

Aviation safety: 2013 in numbers

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The Aviation Safety Network (ASN), an independent body that provides an online database of aviation accidents and incidents, reported tha...

Namibia: Air crash victims identification finalised

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The National Forensic Science Institute (NFSI), which has been conducting tests to identify the victims of the Mozambican plane crash tha...

Sarawak boat tragedy death toll increases

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A search team recovered four bodies from the Lassa River here today, raising to eight the number of people who drowned after a longboat ...
Sunday, 19 January 2014

1919 Baltimore tunnel mine explosion

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At 6:45 a.m. on Thursday morning, June 5, 1919, Jacob Milz, an elderly tracklayer employed by the Delaware & Hudson Coal Company, arr...

Sri Lanka mass grave count hits 36

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Forensic experts have discovered more bodies in an unmarked mass grave in Sri Lanka’s former war zone, raising the total to 36, an offici...

Search resumes for 8 people missing after boat capsize in Sarawak

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The search resumed Sunday for the eight villagers missing after a longboat carrying 27 people capsized in Daro, about 150 km southwest of...

Three drown, eight missing in Malaysia boat capsize

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Three people drowned on Saturday and eight others remained missing after a motorboat capsized in a river in eastern Malaysia, a police o...

Brazil flooding deaths reach 22

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The death toll from a flood in southern Brazil a week ago rose to 22 Saturday with the discovery of two more bodies. Five people are s...
Saturday, 18 January 2014

India: At least 18 dead in Mumbai stampede

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A stampede killed at least 18 people in India's financial hub Mumbai on Saturday when a large crowd gathered to pay their last respec...

Mass grave fuels fear of thousands buried in Sri Lanka war zone

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The discovery of a mass grave containing more than 30 skulls in northern Sri Lanka has fuelled speculation that there may be many more li...
Friday, 17 January 2014

Flood deaths hit 33; state of calamity in Jolo

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The number of fatalities left by widespread flooding and landslides due to week-long heavy rains in wide areas of Mindanao has increased ...

Identifying human remains: Pima County gaining national attention

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The Pima County Medical Examiner's office is in the national spotlight for their work in identifying human remains. The departmen...
Thursday, 16 January 2014

The 1963 Coliseum explosion

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On Halloween night, 1963, during a "Holiday on Ice" skating exhibition at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, a propane gas...

Five bodies recovered from plane crash in Idaho mountains

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Authorities in Valley County say they have recovered five bodies from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the central Idaho mountains...

Floods, landslide kill 13 in Indonesia; 2 missing

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Days of torrential rain triggered a landslide and flash floods on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 13 people and sending ...
Wednesday, 15 January 2014

19 children killed in bus crash on school trip in Pakistan

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At least 21 people, including 19 children, were killed when a school bus smashed head-on into a truck in Pakistan. The bus collided wi...

Goa Collapse: Death toll rises to 31

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The death toll in Canacona building collapse has reached 31 with rescuers today pulling out the last body from under the rubble before fi...

Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers

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At first glance Peio is a small alpine ski resort like many others in northern Italy. In winter it is popular with middle-class Italians ...