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Saturday, 26 July 2014

2nd 'black box' found from Air Algerie crash in Mali, French forensic experts on site

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France has declared a three-day mourning period to commemorate the victims of the Air Algerie Flight 5017, French President Holland decla...

UAE DVI team sent to Ukraine to aid in the identification of MH17 plane victims

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At the request of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), the UAE Disaster Victims Identification (DVI) team set out o...

First MH17 Crash Victims Identified

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Forensic experts have identified the first of 298 people killed when flight MH17 which was shot down over Ukraine last week, the Dutch go...

Case of mistaken identity after bus disaster: Mix-up brings joy to one family, devastation for another

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It was a day of boundless joy for Swamy Goud on Friday. This farmer of Kistapur village, who was mourning the loss of his 'son' i...

Air Algerie wreckage found in Mali

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The wreck of an Air Algerie plane that went missing with 110 passengers on board has been found in Mali near the Burkina Faso border, acc...

NAMUS offers way to share missing persons data

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An estimated 40,000 unidentified dead bodies 10 years ago in the offices of medical examiners and coroners nationwide — many of those off...
Friday, 25 July 2014

32 bodies identified in TransAsia crash

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Thirty-two people among the 48 killed in a TransAsia Airways plane crash Wednesday in the island county of Penghu have been identified, t...
Thursday, 24 July 2014

47 killed after TransAsia plane crashes in typhoon-hit Taiwan - Update

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A TRANSASIA Airways plane has crashed during an attempted emergency landing - killing 47 of the 58 people aboard. Flight GE222 has cra...

Telangana: 20 children killed as school bus and train collide

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A passenger train rammed into a school bus at an unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district on Thursday killing at least...

Air Algerie plane goes missing an hour after leaving Burkina Faso

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Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso on Thursday bound for Algiers. ...

Search for missing MH370 plane 'to continue uninterrupted' despite new Ukrainian disaster

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Angus Houston heads Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which oversees the search for the ill-fated airliner that is belie...

MH17: fears that dozens of bodies remain across crash site

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Dutch police investigators said on Wednesday it could be months before they know how many sets of human remains have been recovered from ...
Wednesday, 23 July 2014

At least 51 feared dead as Taiwan passenger plane crash lands in Penghu

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As many as 51 passengers of a TransAsia Airways flight died as it made an emergency landing in Penghu Wednesday evening, officials said. ...

Forensic experts carry out 29 autopsies in three days after migrant tragedy

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Mater Dei Hospital’s mortuary has seen the largest mass autopsy conducted since starting its operations in 2007, with 29 autopsies conduc...

Body of the final missing Washington mudslide victim has been found

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Four months after a mudslide ravaged a portion of Washington state, authorities announced Tuesday that they had located its final victim....

MH17: Investigators concerned at missing bodies

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International monitors said body parts still lay scattered at eastern Ukraine's unsecured crash site of downed flight MH17, as Dutch ...
Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Interpol team begins identifying victims of flight MH17 crash

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International police agency Interpol said on Tuesday one of its teams had started identifying victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH 17 flig...

MH17: Australian experts to join body identification team

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An Australian expert about to join an international MH17 disaster victim identification team expects the task will resemble his work afte...

Death toll from Typhoon Rammasun reaches 33 in China, at least 97 deaths in the Philippines

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The death toll from Super Typhoon Rammasun has risen to at least 33 after seven more bodies were recovered, state-run media reported on Mo...

Italy rescues 1,800 migrants over weekend, five bodies recovered

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Italy's navy said it rescued nearly 1,800 migrants in overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, and a merchant ship reco...