Thailand Exhumes Dead to Identify Missing
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  task of putting names to thousands of unidentified bodies,  including those of many foreign tourists.
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We believe that death toll is now between 600 and 800 in Thailand, but there appear to be hundreds of people missing. In Phang Nga, 100km north of Phuket, local authorities are saying that bodies are lying
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday that most of the 6,000 people reported missing after the earthquake-powered tsunamis hit the country on Sunday are feared dead.
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Thai authorities, faced with the daunting task of identifying some 5,300 people killed when the tsunami hit, ordered DNA tests on all the dead, including those already buried.
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In one tsunami-hit Thai town, more than half of the 5,000-strong population are missing, police say.
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MANILA, Aug. 31 -- Soldiers have found mass graves believed to hold the remains of up to 300 people who were allegedly killed by communist guerrillas in the 1980s during a purge of suspected spies in the Philippines' remote east, officials said Thursday.
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Thailand says at least 473 foreigners are among the dead from Sunday's sea surges, with hundreds missing.
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Nepal's human rights commission said on Thursday it had found what may be a burial or cremation site of civilians who disappeared during the country's decade-long war against Maoist rebels.
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Death notices sent to relatives of missing people
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At least two Australians are missing in Thailand&#39;s resort island of Phuket, which was one of the first inhabited regions hit by the tsunami.
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A body found in Thailand is  that of a County Tyrone man missing since the Indian Ocean tsunami,  the Irish Government says.
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The Philippine military has exhumed what it believes is the body of Dulmatin, an Indonesian militant wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed over 200 people.
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Foreign forensic experts joined the desperate race to identify Thailand&#39;s tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounted on Thursday.
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Phi Phi Island, Thailand  - Rescue workers  recovered more than 300 bodies on Thailand's remote Phi Phi  Island on Tuesday, two days after a series of powerful waves  devastated the tourist paradise.
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A Thai immigrant convicted of incest led investigators to the body of a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since the Fourth of July, and is expected to be charged in her death, authorities said Friday.
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Rescue workers recovered more than 300 bodies on Thailand&#39;s remote Phi Phi Island on Tuesday, two days after a series of powerful waves devastated the tourist paradise.
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Thai authorities say victims of the tsunami disaster will be DNA tested to avoid confusion over their identity.