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Saturday, 2 May 2015

Final coffins from MH17 crash to be brought home to Netherlands

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The last seven coffins carrying human remains from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 will be flown home to the Netherlands...

You don't actually need to bury the dead immediately after a natural disaster

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It's a persistent myth that the bodies of the dead after a natural disaster are a big health risk. Sadly, most of the people who die ...

Heaton mining disaster's 200th anniversary marked this weekend

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A community will come together this weekend to mark the exact day 200 years ago when a Tyneside colliery was struck by disaster. On Ma...
Friday, 1 May 2015

Volunteers burn Nepal’s unclaimed bodies as death toll rises

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Morgues have no space for newly-arrived bodies in Kathmandu. The crematory pyres outside the revered Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu ...

Mass graves unearthed at human-trafficker camp in Songkhla

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More than 30 bodies were discovered Friday in shallow graves at a human-trafficking camp near the Malaysian border with the national poli...

Thousands still missing after Nepal quake

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Thousands of people were still missing in Nepal on Friday as food and help began to trickle through to those stranded in remote areas aft...

Kenya: Search on for at least nine nissing Narok floods victims

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The search for nine missing bodies swept by flash floods in Narok on Thursday is still ongoing. Kenya Red Cross, National Disaster Man...

MH17 disaster: Search for remains and wreckage ends

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Investigators say they have finished recovering human remains and wreckage from the site of the MH17 plane crash in eastern Ukraine. A...
Thursday, 30 April 2015

Rain hampers Nepal rescue efforts

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Rescue teams toiled in pouring rain on Thursday in the debris left by last week’s devastating earthquake in Nepal, but officials said the...
Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Mozambique plane crash victims buried

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The unidentified remains of those killed when a Mozambican plane crashed in northern Namibia in November 2013, were buried at the Gammams...

How amateur mappers are helping recovery efforts in Nepal

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In the waning days of April 2014, two months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared somewhere near the South China Sea, 60-year-...

Nepal earthquake: DNA test to identify Assam victims

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The Assam government will conduct DNA tests to identify the bodies of its residents who died in the Nepal earthquake. Assam home commis...

Commemorating the Quintinshill rail disaster

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Dumfries and Galloway will commemorate the centenary of the Quintinshill rail disaster on 22 May 2015. The Quintinshill rail disaster o...
Tuesday, 28 April 2015

At Civil War's end, a steamboat disaster that history forgot

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What remains of the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. history lies buried beneath an Arkansas beanfield where the Mississippi River once...

Google, Facebook join Red Cross to find thousands missing after Nepal quake

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German development worker Caroline Siebald and her boyfriend Charles Gertler, an American glaciologist, were on a rafting trip in Nepal ...
Monday, 27 April 2015

Nepal earthquake: Bodies being cremated as aftershocks hamper relief effort

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Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing Sunday, a day after a massiv...
Sunday, 26 April 2015

Google launches ‘Person Finder’ after devastating earthquake hits Nepal

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Google India has launched its ‘Person Finder’ instance to help track missing persons after a massive 7.9 earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday...

Rescue efforts intensify in Nepal

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A 6.7 magnitude aftershock has struck Nepal amid a desperate search for people trapped by the earthquake, which has killed more than 2,00...
Saturday, 25 April 2015

Mount Everest avalanche triggered by Nepal earthquake kills at least 18: reports

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A powerful earthquake in Nepal has triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 18 people, according to reports. An Indi...

Devastating Nepal quake kills over 1,300, some in Everest avalanche

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A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing more than 1,300 people, touching off a dea...