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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

AirAsia QZ8501: Search agency confirms recovery of 53 remains

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The National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Indonesia has confirmed having recovered a total 53 remains. Of the number, 45 had b...

Bones, ashes at Liberia crematorium a reminder of Ebola trauma

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The furnace has been extinguished at a crematorium for victims of the deadly Ebola virus near Liberia's capital Monrovia but a row ...

Handheld Biometrics Deployed To Indonesia In Aid of AirAsia Victim Identification

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AirAsia Flight QZ8501 went missing on December 28, 2014, enroute from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. The fight was found shortly afte...

India: Centre to create DNA bank of unidentified bodies

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Every year, about 40,000 unidentified bodies are disposed of even as thousands go missing across the country. Is there a link between un...
Monday, 19 January 2015

AirAsia Flight 8501: More Bodies Found In Java Sea

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High waves and strong currents continue to hamper recovery operations of the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea, officials s...

Cockroaches with backpacks? They're a search-and-rescue team

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A swarm of insects could one day be the most reassuring sight imaginable to someone trapped in a collapsed building. That’s because rese...

Zimbabwe: 24 perish in bus disaster

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Twenty-four people died while 46 others were seriously injured when two buses were involved in a side-swipe at the 35km peg along the Ha...

Rescuers resume operation to recover fuselage of crashed AirAsia plane from Java Sea

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Rescuers resumed on Monday an operation to recover the fuselage of the crashed AirAsia passenger plane from the seabed of the Java Sea. ...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

QZ8501: Five bodies identified through DNA from personal belongings

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The East Java Police Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has identified five more bodies out of the 162 people who were on board t...

China boat capsize on Yangtze river kills 22

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Twenty-two people have been confirmed dead after a tugboat capsized on the Yangtze river in eastern China, state media report. The boa...

Volunteers search for Malawi flood victims

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While helicopters and boats have been deployed in a military search and rescue operation for victims of devastating floods in Malawi, fam...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

November 1979: Air New Zealand flight 901 disaster

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In November 1979 Air New Zealand flight 901 set off on a sightseeing trip over Antarctica. It was an era when flights over inhospitable P...
Friday, 16 January 2015

Migrants' boat sinks off Libya coast; dozens missing

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Libyan coast guards have rescued 27 illegal African migrants and dozens others are still missing after their boat sank off the coast of t...
Thursday, 15 January 2015

Divers fail to retrieve more bodies in AirAsia jet’s fuselage

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Divers today scoured the sunken fuselage of the crashed AirAsia jet in the Java Sea but failed to retrieve the main wreck or any more bod...

At least 108 dead as Central African Republic boat capsizes

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At least 108 people died and 14 others are missing after a riverboat capsized on the Oubangui river in Central African Republic, accordin...

Sinking of the Viking a century ago

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They were scenes a century ago this week that had seldom been seen before in Shields, and that drove home to this seafaring community of ...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Interpol in Indonesia to assist identification of QZ8501 victims

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Interpol on Wednesday (Jan 14) visited AirAsia's Crisis Centre in Surabaya, East Java, to support the multi-national Disaster Victim ...

India: Legislative sanction required for DNA data bank of unidentified bodies

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The Centre has told Supreme Court that "legislative sanction" is required for establishment of a DNA profiles data bank which ...

Ten dead as Texas prison bus collides with train

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At least 10 people have been killed after a bus carrying prisoners lost control on an icy motorway and collided with a train in Texas, off...

Sindh High Court urges to complete DNA identification of bus accident victims expeditiously

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the Sindh chief secretary on Wednesday to ensure DNA identification of the bus accident victims exped...