Pits of bodies discovered in Sri Lanka
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The bodies of 16 civilians beaten to death in northern Sri Lanka have been found, after fighting between rebels and government troops left 31 dead, the Sri Lankan military said today.
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Police in the eastern Indian state of Orissa have exhumed skulls and body parts believed to be from three dozen aborted female foetuses and murdered infant girls in an abandoned well, a grisly find that highlights the persistence of infanticide in the country.
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Thailand has started exhuming hundreds of bodies hastily buried in mass graves after the Indian Ocean tsunami in an effort to find out how many are among thousands reported missing, many of them foreign tourists.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Laborers digging on a  construction site in northern Iraq uncovered human skulls and  bones on Tuesday, which interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said  were part of a mass grave believed to contain some 500 bodies.
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ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY A father of a victim of Sunday&#39;s quake-triggered tidal wave cries before a mass burial in Tamil Tiger rebel-held Mullativu, eastern Sri Lanka, December 28, 2004.
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A Sri Lankan fleet lands a small catch to try to disprove fears fish have been contaminated by corpses.
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The Israeli newspaper MaÂariv reported last week that an Israeli private detective had located Jacob Alexander in a seaside resort town in Sri Lanka.
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United Nations peacekeepers have discovered three graves, each containing several bodies, at a military base in eastern Congo recently abandoned by rebels loyal to a renegade general, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.
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Police announced they uncovered a plastic bag stuffed with the skeletal remains of at least six newborns Sunday after searching the grounds of a Christian missionary hospital in the central Indian town of Ratlam.
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A powerful land mine ripped through a bus packed with commuters and schoolchildren in northern Sri Lanka on Thursday, killing at least 62 people, the army said. Sri Lanka&#039;s air force responded by bombing rebel-held areas in the northeast.
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The bodies of 11 Muslim civilians have been found in a remote area in eastern Sri Lanka, the military says.
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Three beheaded bodies were found Wednesday on a road near the town of Dujail, 60 km north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. The police said they discovered tattoos on the bodies
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In Sri Lanka, unreliable information can spark fear and security problems.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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Identifying human remains found in the disaster zone grows trickier.
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Forensic experts have found 114 complete bodies and 159 body parts in a mass grave in the northern town of Brcko, a missing persons official said on Tuesday.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's tsunami death toll  shot up on Monday as officials said the more they cleared up,  the more bodies they found.