DVI News 19 July 2010
19/Jul/2010
Medical investigators wrapping up body part IDs11 July 2010. USA.
New Mexico medical investigators have identified the 133 body parts, including heads, that turned up in a grisly discovery at a Kansas medical waste facility and a local firm that harvests organs for medical research, Bio Care, as belonging to 45 individuals.
Twenty-one of those have been identified by name, with most of their remains returned to their families. The two dozen other individuals have yet to be identified.
"Our office had never dealt with anything of this nature before," said Dr. Peter Loomis, forensic odontologist for the state Office of the Medical Investigator. He described a painstaking process in which investigators spent months reviewing DNA, looking at CT scans and X-rays, poring over dental records and doctor's reports, studying medical implants and talking with dozens of families.
Full article at:
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/11/2076182/medical-investigators-wrapping.html
Army Finds Mass Graves in Northern Mexico
15 July 2010.
Army troops found five mass graves, barrels containing bones and other human remains at an automotive junkyard outside Monterrey, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, and arrested a suspect, the Defense Secretariat said.
Soldiers found two stolen vehicles at Gruas Monterrey and detected “a strong foul odor coming from some nearby barrels, which had some holes apparently made by firearms,” the secretariat said.
The barrels contained “bones and human flesh dissolved in some type of acid,” the secretariat said.
Specialists from the Nuevo Leon Attorney General’s Office have found at least six bodies buried at the junkyard, the Defense Secretariat said.
Full article at: http://laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14091&ArticleId=360416
Six of family killed in house collapse
15 July 2010. India.
Six members of a family died early Wednesday morning when the three-storey building they were living in came crashing down in the Brahmpuri area near Usmanpur in northeast Delhi. The deceased have been identified.
Full article at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Six-of-family-killed-in-house-collapse/articleshow/6169200.cms
Another body found at funeral home
15 July 2010. USA.
Another body and the remains of a dozen cremated individuals were found Tuesday at the Seager-Jones Funeral Home, 4 E. Washington St.
A local auctioneer found the remains of a deceased male in a sealed casket in a state of advanced decomposition, according to a release from the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office, Department of Health, and Bath police assisted with Tuesday’s investigation.
Full article at:
http://www.eveningtribune.com/topstories/x680545767/Another-body-found-at-funeral-home
Conson death toll rises to 23
15 July 2010. Philippines.
The death toll from Typhoon Conson's rampage across the Philippines rose to 23 on Thursday.
At least 57 people also remained missing more than a day after the storm hit, the National Disaster Coordinating Centre said.
Full article at:
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_553723.html
Scores dead in Iraq hotel fire
16 July 2010.
At least 29 people, including several foreign nationals, have died in a hotel fire in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, according to hospital sources.
The reported official death toll was first 40 people, but this was later revised down by Najim-Eldeen Qader, the city's police chief.
Some of the victims died after jumping from the third floor to escape the flames, a police official said.
Full article at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201071672610815413.html
Venezuela Exhumes Simon Bolivar’s Remains
16 July 2010.
A multidisciplinary team of some 50 forensic scientists analyzed the remains of the Liberator Simon Bolivar in Caracas, an undertaking that Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami, who observed the work, described as “important” on the state channel Venezolana de Television.
One purpose of the disinterment, according to accounts released in the Venezuelan capital, is to determine whether Bolivar died of tuberculosis, the historically accepted version, or was assassinated, as (Venezuelan President) Chavez believes.
Full article at: http://laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=10717&ArticleId=360563
(General Bolivar organized and led military forces to free the northern portion of South America from Spanish rule in the early nineteenth century).
Death toll from south China floods rises to 135
16 July 2010.
At least 135 people had been confirmed dead and 41 are missing, as some of the worst flooding in years continues in south China.
The Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters announced earlier Thursday that floods had killed 594 people in 26 provinces since the beginning of the year. Another 212 people were missing.
Full article at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-07/16/c_111960157.htm
Mexico Drug-War Toll Tops 7,000 for the Year
17 July 2010.
The more than 7,000 gangland killings reported so far this year bring to nearly 25,000 the number of deaths attributable to the drug war since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006, Mexico’s attorney general said Friday.
By comparison, the death toll for all of 2009 was 7,724.
Full article at: http://laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14091&ArticleId=360524
Quebec plane crash kills 4
17 July 2010. Canada.
A seaplane crashed in the woods in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Friday afternoon, claiming the lives of four people and leaving two seriously injured. The crash site was found at around 5 p.m. and emergency workers had to be parachuted in by rescue helicopters
Full article at: http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/07/16/14742756.html
28 dead miners identified, mine owner detained after NW China coal mine accident
18 July 2010.
The 28 miners killed in a coal mine accident in northwest China's Shaanxi Province Saturday were identified Sunday, local authorities said.
The victims were 15 people from Hubei Province, 10 people from Shaanxi Province, two people from Shandong Province and one from Hebei Province, said a government spokesperson in Hancheng City, where the accident happened
Rescuers had retrieved the remains of five miners by 6:30 a.m. Sunday and the location of the 23 other bodies has been determined, the (general office of the Shaanxi provincial government) statement said.
Full article at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-07/18/c_13402885.htm
Death toll from Typhoon Basyang climbs to 68
18 July 2010. Philippines.
The death toll from Typhoon Basyang (international name Conson) that wrecked havoc last week in three Philippine regions has risen to 68 people with 84 others still missing, an official of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said today.
Full article at:
http://www.todayonline.com/BreakingNews/EDC100718-0000028/Philippine-death-toll-from-typhoon-devastation-rises-to-68-with-another-84-people-missing
All updates from the NDCC are at:
http://www.ndcc.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52:typhoon-qbasyangq-conson&catid=1:ndcc-update
Albania bus crash kills 14
18 July 2010.
Albania's government has declared a day of national mourning after authorities said 14 people died when a bus plunged from a cliff about 140 kilometers (80 miles) north of the capital Tirana.
Sources at a military hospital in Tirana said the toll could rise further
Full article at: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5812739,00.html
Death toll from SW China flooding rises to 23, 30 still missing
18 July 2010.
At least 23 people have been killed and 30 are still missing as of Sunday evening after the worst rainstorm of the year lashed southwest China's Sichuan Province late Friday, the provincial civil affairs department said.
Full article at:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-07/19/c_13403529.htm
Death toll rises to 11 in South Ossetia bus crash
18 July 2010. Russia.
The number of people killed on Sunday when a bus crashed on the Trans-Caucasus highway in the republic of South Ossetia has risen to 11, Rossiya 24 television reported.
A spokeswoman for the regional ministry said Russian rescuers had arrived at the scene and reported eight dead and 16 injured.
Full article at: http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100718/159856192.html
At least 20 missing in rain-triggered landslides in NW China
19 July 2010.
At least 20 people are missing after landslides struck a mountainous county of northwest China's Shaanxi Province Sunday night, local authorities said Monday. Rescuers were still searching for the victims.
Full article at:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-07/19/c_13404255.htm
49 dead, 89 injured as trains collide in West Bengal
19 July 2010. India.
As many as 49 people were killed and 89 serious injured when Uttarbanga Express rammed into stationary Vananchal Express at Sainthia station near Bolpur, Santiniketan, in the wee hours of Monday. Rescue workers are using gas-cutters to cut open the coaches and bring out the dead and rescue the injured.
Full article at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/49-dead-89-injured-as-trains-collide-in-West-Bengal/articleshow/6185725.cms
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