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Monday, 21 September 2015

Mecca crane collapse: Bodies of two more Malaysians identified

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The bodies of two more Malaysian haj pilgrims reported missing after a crane collapsed at Mecca's Grand Mosque have been identified...

New migrant boat tragedy sees 13 die in ferry collision as search continues for nearly others including children feared drowned in second refugee disaster

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The bodies of 13 migrants were discovered after a boat collided with a ferry off the Turkish coast. The commercial vessel hit the migrant...
Sunday, 20 September 2015

Thousands of Mexican families mourn the ‘other disappeared’

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On the morning of her high school graduation, Berenice Navarijo Segura was delayed for a hair and makeup appointment by an explosion of ...

South Africa: Department assessing how to recover bodies of illegal miners

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The Mineral Resources Department is assessing all available options to recover the bodies of illegal miners who died underground at an o...
Saturday, 19 September 2015

Chile Earthquake Death Toll Up to 13, Several Missing

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The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck Chile earlier this week has gone up to 13, while the number of missing people sta...

Death toll rises to 183 after South Sudan fuel tanker explosion

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At least 186 people are now thought have been killed and even more injured in an oil tanker explosion in South Sudan this week, the gover...

Remains of 1974 plane crash in Cypriot recovered

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Cypriot authorities said on Friday that the remains of several victims of a plane crash 41 years ago have been recovered from the crash ...

DNA Samples Of Next-of-kin Of 2 Missing Malaysian Pilgrims Handed To Saudi Authorities

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DNA samples of the next-of-kin of two Malaysian pilgrims who are still missing after a crane collapsed on the Grand Mosque here on Sept 1...
Friday, 18 September 2015

Texas Border Sheriff works with Mexico to find missing persons

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A Texas border sheriff and Mexican officials have begun working together in a unique partnership of sorts that has resulted in finding an...

British Colombia's high number of unidentified bodies: who are they?

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There are about 181 unidentified bodies in British Colombia, which account for more than half of all such cases in Canada, according to t...

Korean War: Julie Bishop in renewed push to find 43 Australian servicemen still missing in action

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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will lead a renewed diplomatic effort to retrieve the remains of Australian servicemen still listed as miss...

Libyan locals give 'dignified end' to unidentified refugee victims

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For the Libyan coastal town of Zuwara, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Tunisian border, people smuggling — a lucrative and wides...

Last of 17 missing miners in Mankayan retrieved

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The final body in the Mankayan tragedy which saw scores of small-scale miners and their families buried by a huge landslide was finall...

Missing pilgrims’ next of kin to undergo DNA test at Saudi mortuary

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The next of kin of the two Malaysian pilgrims who are still unaccounted for after a crane collapsed on the Grand Mosque in Mecca last Fri...
Thursday, 17 September 2015

Remains of second Mexican student identified

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Forensic experts in Austria have identified the remains of a second Mexican student who was among a group of 43 who vanished after they...
Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Makkah accident dead laid to rest

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The morgue in Mina has begun releasing the bodies of the victims of Friday’s crane crash tragedy, with those conclusively identified by t...

At least 22 migrants drown as boat capsizes in Aegean Sea

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At least 22 migrants, including four children, have drowned while 211 migrants have been rescued after a Kos-bound boat capsized in the A...

Dozens of migrants drown as boat capsizes in Aegean Sea

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The Greek Coast Guard recovered the bodies of 34 migrants, including 15 children, on Sunday in the Aegean Sea after their wooden boat fli...

Anthropology in action: Identifying missing migrants

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A hairbrush. A bus ticket. A stuffed purple dinosaur. A container of Vaseline. These are among the many items left in the desert by im...

13 more Trigana Air victims identified

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Using DNA testing, Indonesia’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has identified the bodies of 13 more victims from the Aug. 16 Tr...