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Friday, 21 August 2015

Indonesia concludes crashed plane recovery efforts

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Indonesia’s search and rescue agency has concluded operations involving a plane that crashed in the mountains of eastern Papua, following...

Bihar: 13 feared drowned as boat capsizes in Rohtas

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Thirteen persons including four women were feared drowned after a boat capsized in river Sone near Dehri-on-Sone, about 145 kms south-wes...

MH17: Bones buried two-feet deep in crash site

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The impact of fire and fall during the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 tragedy had caused some of the bones of the victims to be buried as...

Police DVI team identifies four bodies

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The National Police Disaster Victims Identification (DVI) team has identified four victims from the Trigana Air plane that crashed in Peg...
Thursday, 20 August 2015

All Indonesia plane crash bodies recovered

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The bodies of all 54 people killed in a plane crash in eastern Indonesia have been recovered from a remote jungle site and flown to hosp...

At least 13 killed in landslide in southwest China

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Thirteen people have been killed in a village in southwestern China after heavy rain created a huge landslide. Eleven people are also ...

First bodies recovered from Indonesia plane crash site

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The first bodies of 54 people killed when a plane went down in eastern Indonesia were Wednesday carried from the remote crash site after ...

Forensic Team Finds Mass Grave in Chungui, Ayacucho

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A team of forensic specialists have found the remains of 50 men, women and children in Ayacucho, in five mass graves outside the town of ...

China landslide rescue suspended for safety concern

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Rescue work has been suspended amid fears of more slides at a mining site in Shaanxi where 56 people remain missing. Zhao Fasuo with ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

10 die as landslide strikes Sikh temple

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A landslide struck a popular Sikh temple complex in northern India on Tuesday, killing at least ten people and wounding 10 others, police...

China landslide victims mourned, 52 remain missing

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More than 700 people mourned the deaths of at least 12 people in a mudslide that engulfed a mining community in north-western China six d...

3 specialist doctors to help identification of Trigana victims

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The National Police said on Tuesday they had dispatched three Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) personnel to help identify the bodies...

Bad weather hinders evacuation of bodies from site of Indonesia plane crash

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Rescuers on Tuesday reached the site in eastern Indonesia where a passenger plane slammed into a mountain over the weekend. Heavy fog...

Bodies of 49 migrants who died of asphyxiation arrive in Italy

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The 49 bodies of the migrants who died from asphyxiation in the hold of an overcrowded fishing boat off the Italian coast over the weeken...

Arizona: Finding migrants, or their remains

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Anne Norris said her son, Andrew, had a close and loving relationship with his father in the short time they were together before the la...

August 1985: The worst month for air disasters

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August 1985 witnessed more passenger and crew deaths on commercial airlines than any other month. What made it so deadly and what change...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Cyprus: Hopes rise in bid to find mass grave containing bodies of Greek Cypriots

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New efforts were underway in the occupied north yesterday to locate a mass grave thought to contain the bodies of dozens of Greek Cypriot...

Rescuers stopped from reaching Indonesia plane crash site by bad weather

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A plane that went down in eastern Indonesia two days ago was “completely destroyed” and 38 bodies have so far been found, officials said...

Zimbabwe: SA Accident Victims to Be DNA Tested

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The identification process of nine Zimbabweans who died in an accident last Thursday is expected to take time as most of the victims were...

Midnight killer: The 1976 Moro Gulf tsunami

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It was 10 minutes past midnight of August 17, 1976, a Tuesday. While most people were sleeping, a massive earthquake, registering m...