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Monday, 7 September 2015

Search on for eight missing after South Korea boat capsize

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South Korean coastguard and navy vessels, backed by rescue aircraft, are still searching for eight people missing after a fishing charter...

Death toll hits 61 in Malaysia boat tragedy

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Malaysian authorities have found the bodies of 11 more Indonesian migrants including a young girl, taking the toll from last week's b...
Sunday, 6 September 2015

M'sia resumes search and rescue for missing immigrants

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Malaysian authorities have resumed their search and rescue operation for missing immigrants from the boat that capsized off the Sabak Ber...

South Korean fishing boat capsizes; at least 10 dead

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At least 10 people died and about eight were missing after a South Korean fishing boat capsized, a coast guard official and media reports...

Authorities struggle to identify dead in migrant tragedies

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Adal Neguse, an Eritrean immigrant whose brother drowned in a smuggler's boat while trying to reach Italy in 2013, knows all too wel...
Friday, 4 September 2015

Donan cementerio para cadáveres de desconocidos (in Spanish)

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Los “entierros” o inhumaciones masivas dejarán de ser consuetudinarias en Honduras, al confirmarse que en el kilómetro 14 de la carreter...

Boat overturns on Malian lake amid heavy winds; at least 18 bodies found

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Authorities say at least 18 people are dead in central Mali after a boat overturned on a lake there during heavy winds. The Malian go...

Great East Japan Earthquake: Mystery man found dead among 3/11 rubble finally identified

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A body pulled from burned debris after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami has finally been identified as that of...
Thursday, 3 September 2015

14 dead after boat with 70 migrants on board capsizes near Malaysia

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A wooden boat crammed with migrant workers who were headed back to Indonesia capsized Thursday off Malaysia's western coast, leaving ...

Austria struggle to Identify truck victims

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Veteran police investigators say they have never faced a task like identifying the 71 bodies unloaded from the back of a truck found aban...

20 years on, Bougainville families haunted by missing

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In the late 1980s, long-standing tensions over an Australia-run copper mine saw the region of Bougainville descend into a decade-long civ...

Himachal Pradesh: 18 dead, 12 injured as bus falls into gorge at Nathpa

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Eighteen people were killed and twelve others injured on Tuesday when a bus fell 200 metres deep into a gorge at Nathpa on Hindustan Tibe...
Wednesday, 2 September 2015

11 migrants drown, 5 missing when boats sink on way to Greek island from Turkey

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A Turkish media report says at least 11 migrants have died and five others are missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of K...

Mexico asks Austria lab to test missing students' clothes

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Mexican authorities delivered on Tuesday clothing and objects linked to last year's disappearance and presumed massacre of 43 student...

Mass grave found in northern Mexico

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A mass grave has been found in northern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday, as a rights group indicated it could contain 31,000 bone frag...

20 years after Chechen war, families still searching for missing bodies

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Zura Batayeva carefully holds a small black-and-white photograph between her fingers. Creased and faded, it shows an earnest man with cu...

2 more bodies retrieved from Benguet landslide

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The remains of two miners were recovered by a team of volunteers digging through mud and rocks in a landslide-hit area in Mankayan, Bengu...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

The issue of missing persons demands a global solution

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Well over 2,000 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean in 2015 and untold numbers have perished crossing the Sahara en route to port...

At least 37 migrants feared dead in Libya shipwreck

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At least 37 migrants are thought to have died following a weekend shipwreck off the Libyan coast, the Libyan Red Cross said Monday, cappi...

Working to identify the sailors on the USS Oklahoma

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The fuel-stained bones, hundreds of them, are laid out neatly on Carrie Brown’s exam tables at Offutt Air Force Base, carefully tagged an...