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People in a village outside this Hezbollah stronghold used a front-end loader to carry away some of the dead Wednesday after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid inside Baalbek that residents said killed at least 15 civilians.
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Soldiers laid 72 coffins in two trenches, a mass grave for victims of the Israeli bombardment. Elsewhere, mounds of rubble sat undisturbed; rescue workers were too fearful of missiles to search for bodies.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Relatives wandered among rows and rows of plastic body bags at a morgue yesterday, searching for loved ones who had died at the end of a three-day siege by Chechen rebels the day before.
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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BAIJI, Iraq  - The decapitated bodies of three  men, their heads strapped to their backs, were found dumped in  bags by a roadside north of Baghdad Wednesday, Iraqi police and  U.S. officials said.
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Rescue workers in the Philippines began burying landslide victims in a mass grave on Sunday, as the Red Cross said that more than 1,000 people had probably died in the disaster.
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SOUTH-EAST Asia yesterday turned to the grim task of burying its multitudes of dead from the tsunami disaster. Tens of thousands of bodies lay unburied all across the region.
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Investigators have begun to excavate at the site of a mass grave in northern Iraq which is believed to contain up to 300 bodies. The site at Hatra, south of Mosul, is believed to contain the bodies of Kurdish
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Using picks, shovels and even their hands, hundreds of coal miners have worked around the clock for a year to recover the bodies of 65 co-workers lost in an explosion. So far, frustrated searchers have only found two.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 6, 2004 - Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city Monday, carrying coffins large and small, as townspeople buried scores of victims of a carefully
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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as a temporary mortuary, as a truck pulled in with another load of bloated Thai and foreign bodies. peak of the Christmas and New Year tourist season.
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Stricken countries on the Indian Ocean are working swiftly to bury thousands of bodies as experts warn disease could kill as many people as the 63,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday&#39;s tsunami.
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Shortly before he died, convicted murderer Richard Liggett was asked to make two of the simple plywood coffins he meticulously crafted for fellow prisoners. Except the caskets would be for Billy and Ruth Graham.
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Port Blair, Dec 30 (UNI) After working round the clock in the relief and rescue operations, a beleagured Andaman and Nicobar administration has taken up on itself the task of burying the dead.
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Bulldozers carried out preparatory clearing work on Sunday around the village of Beit Awwa near Hebron. The activity comes just five days after suicide bombings in the southern city of Beersheva, but officials