DVI blog

Forensic experts were on Thursday still going through the grisly and complex process of identifying victims of the Brussels bomb attacks...

Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Team of Central Sulawesi Police is currently identifying the 13 bodies of the National Armed Force (T...

Five years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, police in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures are still searching for and identifyi...

Rescuers on Sunday found the bodies of two schoolchildren hit by an avalanche in the mountainous northwest, while nine more remain buried...

Flydubai said on Saturday that it will organise a "programme of hardship payments" of $20,000 to each victims' families to a...

More than 30 miners were trapped in the mountainous Orakzai tribal region after a shaft collapsed amid heavy downpours on Saturday, accor...

Efforts to identify bodies of victims of natural disasters or people with dementia who are under protective custody using the soles of th...

Over forty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the remains of nameless civilians and fighters are still being unearthed. Now effort...

Dozens of Ethiopian and Somali migrants died in the waters off the breakaway Somalia region of Somaliland when their vessel failed mecha...

A bus carrying amateur football players and fans plunged into a river after careening off a bridge in eastern Mexico, leaving at least 16...

Fourteen people, most of them Syrian refugees, were killed and dozens more injured in two deadly bus accidents in Turkey in the past 24 h...

It's already looking like 2016 could be another grim, record-breaking year when it comes to the number of migrants and refugees who d...

Floods, cyclones, wildfires, heat waves, earthquakes and landslides made 2015 a devastating year for a lot of people around the world. We ...

Rescuers in northern Myanmar called off their search for workers feared buried in a jade mine landslide, police said on Sunday (Dec 27), ...

A week after the KM Marina Baru ship sank in Bone Bay, National Search and Rescue Team (Basarnas) has announced a decision to extend its ...

Aceh residents gathered on Saturday in a number of venues across the province to send their prayers to the victims of the Indian Ocean ts...

Dozens of people are feared missing or dead after a landslide hit a jade mining region in Myanmar’s northern Kachin state. Officials s...

Following the gas explosion that rocked Nnewi industrial town which plunged residents into mourning when scores of persons were reportedl...

The Philippines Sunday marked the second anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan - with the bodies of possible victims of the disaster which left a...

More bodies of the victims of the Sundar Industrial Factory tragedy were recovered on Saturday, raising the death toll to 49. Rescuer...