Hunt for Tajik avalanche victims
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Rescuers in Tajikistan try to reach people trapped by an avalanche that killed at least 16 people.
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Search teams on Sunday recovered  the body of a 27-year-old skier from a massive avalanche Friday  on an off-trail area near Park City, Utah, officials said.
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A huge avalanche at Whitefish Mountain Resort killed two backcountry skiers and searchers combed the slide area for other possible victims
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Rescue teams in Alaska have called off the search for six people missing in the Bering Sea. The crew plunged into the frigid waters Wednesday when a rescue helicopter crashed while evacuating them from a broken freighter.
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Rangers completed a dramatic rescue Thursday of two climbers from a snowy mountain and removed the ice-encrusted bodies of two other hikers who died on the
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Rescue workers stepped up the hunt Friday for victims of landslides and floods that claimed scores of lives on Indonesia's Java island and left thousands homeless, an official said.
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Afghan police launched a hunt Friday for gunmen who abducted a bus full of South Koreans, a police official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said they have abducted 18 people.
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Searchers scouring a rugged canyon Tuesday found a pair of pants matching the description of those worn by a missing man who struck out for help after his family's car got stuck in the snow.
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NATO troops reached the wreckage of an Afghan airliner Monday, four days after it crashed into a snowy mountain peak, and began the gruesome task of searching for survivors among the 104 people on board, an alliance spokesman said.
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Afghan authorities said they would begin moving on Monday remains of 104 victims from a crashed airliner off the snow-topped mountain near Kabul where they have lain for 11 days.
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RESCUE teams searched the perimeter of an airfield in central Indonesia yesterday seeking survivors from a plane crash that killed at least 31 people and left 47 missing.
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Investigators searched through heaps of mangled bodies and metal strewn over dozens of miles of fields and birch groves in two Russian regions
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Rescuers continue to search for survivors of bomb attacks at Egyptian resorts in which at least 29 people died.
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Authorities said Wednesday they had been unable to confirm reports that two more skiers were buried by a deadly avalanche and they were reassessing whether a search should resume.
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Thousands of people have been evacuated from Tajikistan's eastern mountainous region following a series of avalanches, the Emergency Ministry said Tuesday.
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An avalanche swept into a chairlift Sunday at a ski resort that is part of Russia's bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, killing a 10-year-old child and trapping at least three other people, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
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Text of report by Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website  Khorugh, 16 February: The volume of TV and radio broadcasts have been reduced two-fold in the Mountainous Badakhshon Autonomous Region [in eastern Tajikistan] due to an accident at the Pamir-1 hydroelectric power station.