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Saturday, 26 April 2014

Body recovery from sunken S.Korean ferry suspended

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Concerns are growing among anguished families that the bodies of those who died in the sinking of a South Korean ferry may never be found...

Missing SAR helicopter and crew located by underwater robot submarine near Canary Islands

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An underwater robot submarine, “Rémora II”, located the wreck of a Search and Rescue helicopter that crashed into the sea in the waters o...

Bosnia: 100 of 400 war victims found in mass grave identified

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Forensic experts have managed to identify 100 of nearly 400 people killed during the 1992-1995 war and buried in a mass grave near the no...
Friday, 25 April 2014

South Korea admits ferry disaster dead bodies given to wrong families

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As visiting President Barack Obama offered South Koreans his condolences Friday for the ferry disaster, the South Korean government conce...

Another 20 Fromelles diggers identified

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A further 20 Australian soldiers killed during the bloody World War I battle at Fromelles have been identified, defence officials have co...

There are still broken bones beneath Bangladesh's collapsed sweat shop

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One year ago today, Rana Plaza — a nine-story factory building in Savar, Bangladesh — collapsed, killing 1,116 workers immediately and i...

South korea ferry disaster: Confirmed death toll at 183 with 119 still missing

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Latest search operations for the sunken ferry have been focused on its third- and fourth-deck cabins, where most of the missing victims a...
Thursday, 24 April 2014

Deadly illegal mining booms below South African City of Gold

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Smoke rises from a derelict mine shaft 25 miles east of Johannesburg, where illegal miners cook, work and sleep below ground for weeks at...

Families protest opencast mine plans on site of Diglake disaster burial ground

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Outraged descendants of miners who drowned in a colliery disaster staged a protest against plans to build an opencast mine on the site. ...

More typhoon ‘Yolanda’ bodies found

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Five months after Supertyphoon “Yolanda” leveled large swathes of the Eastern Visayas, dead bodies continue to turn up. Seven bodies w...

Mount Everest has claimed many lives

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Mount Everest has recently claimed 16 lives from a deadly avalanche, which makes this the deadliest disaster that the mountain has ever ...

Ideal procedure was not maintained in identifying Rana Plaza victims

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Faced with an industrial disaster of an unprecedented scale, it was not possible to follow the ideal procedure of using DNA tests to iden...

Indian Air Force to set up high-risk crew’s DNA database

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In a first, the Indian Air Force has initiated a project for DNA profiling of its personnel, selecting a high-risk group of aircrew that ...

South Korea's ferry crash: 159 bodies found, 143 still missing

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The death toll from South Korea’s ferry crash has reached 159, with 143 people still missing, the coastal guard of the Chindo island said...
Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Tanzania: Simiyu accident toll rises to 15

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The death toll from the road accident that involved a bus christened Lehuye Express Bus on the Tarime-Mwanza Highway on Monday has increa...

12 perish in road accident in Edo

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No fewer than 12 persons were Tuesday feared death in a multiple road accident and scores of others sustained various degree of injuries...

63 killed, 80 injured in Congo train crash

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At least 63 people were killed and 80 were seriously injured in Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province when a train speeding...

Suspected mass grave excavated

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Experts have started excavation on a mass grave in Serbia believed to contain at least 250 bodies of ethnic Albanians who were killed dur...

Rescuers find 121 bodies from sunken ship, 181 still missing

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Authorities Tuesday confirmed that the death toll in the South Korean ferry capsize is 121 as rescue divers continued their searches for ...

The Ghosts of Rana Plaza

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In Bangladesh, one year after the worst accident in the history of the garment industry, recovery remains a fragile process, justice seem...