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Lagos Boat Mishap: 15 Bodies Finally Recovered From River

July 11, 2022 6:11 pm

The aftermath of the unfortunate boat accident that saw over 16 missing passengers has been updated as a total of 15 bodies have been recovered from the 16-passenger boat that capsized on July 8 in the Ojo area of Lagos State.

Mr Oluwadamilola Emmanuel who is the General Manager, Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), had announced and confirmed the new figure.

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Four bodies of the victims were recovered on Saturday, while 11 others were recovered on Sunday.

Emmanuel had revealed that Search and Rescue teams of LASWA, the National Inland …

Rivers Govt Warns Against Plans To Exhume Buried COVID-19 Bodies

May 30, 2020 12:38 pm

The Rivers State Government has issued a strong warning to those attempting to invade the Port Harcourt cemetery to exhume bodies of their loved ones to have a re-think.

Reports emerged late Friday that the remains of the late Executive Chairman of Asari-Toru Local government area of Rivers State, Odiari Princewill who died of coronavirus, was exhumed.

It was gathered that Late Princewill’s body was exhumed by gunmen suspected to be natives of Buguma, his hometown.

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Kaduna Explosion: DPR Recovers More Bodies Of 3 Victims

January 11, 2020 5:31 am

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Friday said a combined team of DPR, KEPA and other agencies have recovered mutilated bodies of three more victims of the Jan. 4 Kaduna gas explosion.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the recovery of the three bodies brings to eight the number of victims killed by the gas explosion.

The North West Zonal Controller, DPR, Isa Tafida made the disclosure during a condolence visit to the family of the late Chairman of Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, Prof. Simon Mallam.

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NZ Military Set For Risky Mission To Retrieve Bodies

December 12, 2019 2:42 pm

New Zealand’s military will embark on a risky dawn mission to retrieve eight bodies from the still-active White Island volcano, officials said Thursday, as pressure from distraught victims’ families mounted.

Teams will move in “shortly after first light” on Friday, deputy police commissioner Mike Clement said, despite volcanologists warning that the chances of another significant eruption in the next 24 hours had risen to 50-60 percent.

“They will go on to the island and they will make every effort to recover all of the bodies” and transport them to military frigate HMNZS Wellington anchored off the coast, he said.

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Eruption Fears Halt Plans To Get Bodies Off Zealand Volcano

December 11, 2019 4:26 pm

Fears of another eruption at the New Zealand volcano believed to have killed 15 people made it too dangerous for emergency teams to recover bodies, police said Wednesday, as doctors fought to save survivors who suffered horrific burns.

The official death toll after Monday’s explosion on White Island stands at six, with police listing another nine as missing, up from the previous figure of eight.

Their bodies are thought to be on the island, but it remains too hazardous for rescuers to travel there, and for forensic pathologists, odontologists and other victim identification experts to begin their work.

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SA: Bodies Of 2 Northern Cape Girls Found In Unused Freezer

November 14, 2019 3:28 pm

Police in Northern Cape are investigating following the discovery of the bodies of two young girls in a deep freezer on Monday.

The two friends, aged four and five, were reported missing on Sunday in Bankhara.

Police spokesperson Brigadier Mohale Ramatseba said, while a search was under way around 9am on Monday, a neighbour informed them that she had found the two bodies in an unused fridge while placing her house keys inside.

“It is reported that the neighbours used to put their house keys in that freezer. That’s the reason she could notice that the kids are inside the …

Three Bodies Found After South Korean Helicopter Crash

November 2, 2019 5:30 am

South Korean rescuers located three bodies believed to be among seven who went missing after their chopper crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from islets disputed with Japan, officials said Saturday.

The helicopter had just picked an injured fisherman up from Dokdo, which is known as Takeshima in Japan when it went down on Thursday night.

One body was found inside the chopper located at a depth of 72 metres (240 feet), 600 metres south of the islets, while the other two were found in the water nearby, a Coast Guard representative told reporters.

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Villagers Search For Bodies As 70 Died In Afghan Blast

October 19, 2019 12:09 pm

Villagers searched for the bodies of their loved ones on Saturday in the rubble of a mosque in eastern Afghanistan that collapsed in a blast during Friday prayers, killing 70 people including dozens of children, officials said.

The attack — the country’s second most deadly this year — took place in Haska Mina district of eastern Nangarhar province and also wounded at least 36 people.

“We have reports that the death toll has reached 70 in yesterday’s incident,” the provincial governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.

“We have sent assistance to the district that includes food and other items,” he …

Attempts To Split China Risk ‘Smashed’ Bodies: Xi Jinping

October 14, 2019 7:01 am

President Xi Jinping has warned that any attempts to split China would result in “bodies smashed and bones ground to powder”, amid four months of anti-Beijing unrest in Hong Kong.

Xi issued the dire message during a weekend visit to Nepal, according to a foreign ministry statement released on Sunday.

“Anyone who attempts to split any region from China will perish, with their bodies smashed and bones ground to powder,” Xi said, according to the ministry.

“Any external forces that support the splitting of China can only be regarded as delusional by the Chinese people,” he said.

While Xi did …

Chief Medical Director of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) Dr. Edmond Banwat has alerted the public over the presence of 39 unidentified bodies at the hospital’s mortuary.

39 bodies abandoned in JUTH’s mortuary

July 9, 2019 1:27 am

Chief Medical Director of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) Dr. Edmond Banwat has alerted the public over the presence of 39 unidentified bodies at the hospital’s mortuary.

Banwat said some of the bodies have been deposited at the morgue located at the hospital’s temporary site on Murtala Muhammed Way, Jos, since January 2018.

According to information provided by the JUTH Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Bridget Omini, the hospital waited for more than one year and six months for families of the deceased to come and identify as well as claim them to no avail.

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