Thousands of skeletons found in London pit
August 6th, 2012 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 6 (IANS) Thousands of skeletons found in a mass grave in London were of people who died due to climatic changes after a 13th century volcanic eruption, according ... Read more...
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48 Iranian pilgrims abducted in Syria
August 4th, 2012 - 8:50 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Aug 4 (IANS) At least 48 Shia Muslim pilgrims from Iran were Saturday abducted in the Syrian capital by militants while they were on their way to the Damascus ... Read more...
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60 Somalis, Ethiopians feared dead in Malawi
June 22nd, 2012 - 9:16 am ICT by IANS
Lilongwe (Malawi), June 22 (IANS) Police in northern Malawi have found bodies of some 48 of the 60 Somalis and Ethiopians who were drowned in Lake Malawi earlier this week. ... Read more...
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Remains of missing Mexican politician found in mass grave
March 17th, 2012 - 11:29 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, March 17 (IANS/EFE) One of the victims in a mass grave discovered in May 2011 has been identified as a politician who went missing in July 2010, authorities ... Read more...
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Omar says ‘mass graves’ are only unmarked graves
September 27th, 2011 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Sep 27 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday denied the existence of "mass graves" in the state, saying these were only unmarked graves.Delivering a long speech ... Read more...
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Libyan leaders find a mass grave having more than 1000 bodies
September 26th, 2011 - 7:06 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Tripoli, Sept 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Libyan transitional leaders say they have found a mass grave containing more than 1,000 bodies. The authorities say they suspect the bodies belong to inmates of ... Read more...
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Mass grave of 1,270 found in Libya
September 26th, 2011 - 5:01 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 26 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A mass grave containing the bodies of over 1,270 people killed by Muammar Gaddafi's forces has been found near Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, local ... Read more...
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Mass grave of 40 found in Iraq
September 10th, 2011 - 6:26 am ICT by IANS
Baghdad, Sep 10 (IANS) Iraqi police have found a mass grave containing 40 dead bodies, Xinhua reported.The grave was found in the central Salah ad Din province Friday, said ... Read more...
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Members of anti-Soviet resistance group found in Estonian mass grave
August 26th, 2011 - 6:18 pm ICT by BNO News
TALLINN (BNO NEWS) -- The bodies of ten men have been found in a mass grave in southern Estonia, local media reported on Friday, and officials believe they were members of the ... Read more...
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900 bodies found in mass grave in Iraq
July 7th, 2011 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
Baghdad, July 7 (IANS) Iraqi authorities have dug up a mass grave with some 900 bodies, believed to be Kurds killed under late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime in 1980s, ... Read more...
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Mass grave found in Syria
June 13th, 2011 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
Damascus, June 12 (IANS) Syrian army troops Sunday discovered a mass grave near a security detachment in the violence-hit area of Jisr al-Shughour, eyewitnesses told Xinhua.The mass grave is believed ... Read more...
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Gujarat court rejects Teesta Setalvad’s plea
May 28th, 2011 - 12:30 am ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, May 27 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court Friday turned down the plea to quash the first information report against Mumbai based social activist Teesta Setalvad.Justice G.B. Shah, however, quashed the ... Read more...
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BJP accuses Rahul Gandhi of exaggeration
May 18th, 2011 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Dubbing Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's claims on Bhatta Parsaul as exaggeration, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday accused the Congress of kicking up ... Read more...
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Evidence of a ‘massacre’ linked to Iron Age warfare found in Britain
April 19th, 2011 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 19 (ANI): Archaeologists in Britain have excavated the remains of a large fortified Iron Age settlement at Fin Cop in the Derbyshire Peak District.They have so far found the skeletons ... Read more...
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13 bodies found in Mexico mass graves
April 9th, 2011 - 11:09 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, April 9 (IANS/EFE) Two new mass graves containing 13 bodies have been discovered in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the total number of corpses found buried ... Read more...
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Sikh group asks UNESCO to preserve Haryana ruins
March 12th, 2011 - 11:55 am ICT by IANS
New York, March 12 (IANS) A Sikh community group has asked UNESCO to preserve and manage the ruins of Hondh-Chillar in Haryana, where a mass grave of Sikh victims of ... Read more...
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Tanzania police arrest suspect over mass baby grave
February 2nd, 2011 - 1:58 am ICT by BNO News
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA (BNO NEWS) -- Police on Tuesday arrested the alleged prime suspect over the dumping of ten newborn babies in a shallow pit near a hospital in Dar es ... Read more...
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Scientists identify Henri IV’s head after 400 years
December 15th, 2010 - 2:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 15 (ANI): A team of scientists has identified the head of French King, Henri IV, from the skeletons of monarchs lying in mass graves in the Royal Basilica of Saint-Denis ... Read more...
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1,000-yr-old Viking massacre remains unearthed in Oxford
November 8th, 2010 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 8 (ANI): Archaeologists have revealed that Viking skeletons found buried beneath an Oxford college two years back were the victims of brutal ethnic cleansing 1,000 years ago.Experts were mystified when ... Read more...
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Holocaust Era Mass Grave Unearthed, Shocks The World
November 7th, 2010 - 8:43 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
November 7, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Just when we thought that the atrocities committed by the Nazis and Hitler were all accounted for, the world was shocked to discover ... Read more...
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Holocaust-Era Mass Grave Found In Romania
November 7th, 2010 - 8:26 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Bucharest, Nov 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Holocaust researchers have discovered a mass grave in the forest of Romania that they say contain the remains of estimated 100 Jews. The Elie Wiesel National ... Read more...
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Holocaust-Era Mass Grave Found In Romania
November 7th, 2010 - 8:09 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Bucharest, Nov 7, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A mass grave consisting of several bodies of Jews victims, killed by the Romanian army during World War 2, was dug at Vulturi forest in ... Read more...
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18 bodies found at mass grave in Mexico
November 7th, 2010 - 1:36 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Nov 7 (IANS/EFE) The bodies of six kidnapped tourists were among the 18 corpses found this week at a clandestine grave near Mexico's Pacific resort of Acapulco, authorities said.The head ... Read more...
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Mass grave from Holocaust era found in Romania
November 6th, 2010 - 12:54 am ICT by BNO News
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (BNO NEWS) -- A mass grave on Friday was unearthed in a forest in northeast Bucharest. The grave contains bodies of men, women and children killed during the Holocaust era.According ... Read more...
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Karnataka to excavate site of skulls find
September 3rd, 2010 - 8:35 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Sep 3 (IANS) The Karnataka government plans to excavate about an acre around the area in Dharwad district where a large number of skulls and some skeletons have been found to ... Read more...
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Exhumation of alleged mass grave begins in Kosovo
September 2nd, 2010 - 2:39 am ICT by IANS
Belgrade, Sep 2 (IANS) The search for a mass grave in the village of Zilivode near the capital Pristina, said to contain the bodies of 25 Serbs kidnapped or killed in Kosovo, ... Read more...
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50 skulls recovered in Karnataka town
September 1st, 2010 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Sep 1 (IANS) The recovery of over 50 skulls and a few skeletons while clearing a drain in north Karnataka's Dharwad district has sent the police and civil authorities in a ... Read more...
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72 bodies discovered in mass grave in Mexico’s drug-plaged north
August 25th, 2010 - 12:39 pm ICT by BNO News
MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) – The bodies of at least 72 people were found in a mass grave near San Fernando, a town located in Mexico's Tamaulipas state, officials said.The alleged dumping ... Read more...
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Toll Of Dug-Up Bodies From Mexico Mass Grave Rises To 51
July 25th, 2010 - 4:28 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
July 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Another gruesome face of escalating drug related violence has hit the state of Mexico. On Saturday, as the police proceeded with its 72-hours unearthing of the ... Read more...
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Remains of Australian and British troops honored 94 years after the Battle of Fromelles
July 19th, 2010 - 11:05 pm ICT by BNO News
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (BNO NEWS) -- Australian and British soldiers who died in one of the bloodiest battles in history, during World War One, finally received honorable goodbyes with proper funeral ceremonies 94 ... Read more...
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Mass grave of World War II troops found
June 30th, 2010 - 7:33 am ICT by IANS
Zagreb, June 30 (DPA) Croatian police confirmed that a mass grave from the Second World War was found on the outskirts of Zagreb, local media reported.
The grave is believed to contain remains ... Read more...
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Kosovans’ mass grave found in Macedonia
June 16th, 2010 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Pristina/Skopje, June 16 (DPA) Macedonian and Kosovo officials are planning a joint investigation of a possible mass grave in Macedonia that might contain the bodies of Kosovan civilians killed in the 1999 ... Read more...
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Mass grave found in Mexico
June 7th, 2010 - 3:28 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 7 (IANS/EFE) At least 39 bodies have been found in a mass grave in Mexico, officials said.
The grave, perhaps the largest yet found in Mexico, may contain up to ... Read more...
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40 bodies found in Mexico mass grave
June 2nd, 2010 - 1:50 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 2 (IANS/EFE) At least 40 bodies, including that of a prison warden, were found in a mass grave in Mexico's Guerrero state, the state attorney general's office said.
The body ... Read more...
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Mass grave found in Mexico
May 31st, 2010 - 5:00 am ICT by IANS
Chilpancingo (Mexico), May 31 (IANS/EFE) A mass grave containing at least 25 bodies was discovered in Mexico's southern Guerrero state, officials said Sunday.
Guerrero has been plagued by drug-related violence in recent years. ... Read more...
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