Foreign Experts Race to Identify Dead in Thailand
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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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BANGKOK,  - More than 700 foreign tourists are believed to have died when tidal waves smashed into southern Thailand over the weekend, the deputy interior minister said.
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Forensics experts were poring over fingerprints and dental records to identify victims from the Asian tsunami, hoping to get the easier matches out of the way before tackling the time-consuming process of DNA analysis.
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Thailand will next week begin burying 513 bodies of tsunami victims that have gone unclaimed or unidentified nearly two years after the catastrophe.
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Foreign forensic experts joined the desperate race to identify Thailand's tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounted on Thursday.
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Thousands of bodies of tsunami victims are in Buddhist temples across southern Thailand. For many days before their graves were dug, they lay on the temples' concrete floors in 90-degree heat, which accelerated decomposition and complicated efforts to identify them. The scientists are relying on dental records and DNA to help their cause.
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A Filipino who died in the tsunami that hit Phuket, Thailand was identified Thursday even as Philippine embassy officials scrambled to verify additional Filipino casualties.
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Suspected mass graves of East Timorese  killed during the bloodiest crackdown of Indonesian rule are to  be excavated by Australian forensic experts to try and identify  hundreds of people slain by Jakarta's security forces.
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Officials are calling on family members of persons missing since the terrorist attacks in Egypt to give DNA samples which will be cross matched against tissue samples from the bodies as identification efforts continue.
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Amnesty International has urged the Thai government to impartially investigate the deaths of at least 84 protesters in the south of the country.
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Thailand prepares to bury the final bodies of those killed in one of the  regions hardest-hit by the 2004 tsunami.
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Suspected mass graves of East Timorese killed during the bloodiest crackdown of Indonesian rule are to be excavated by Australian forensic experts to try and identify hundreds of people slain by Jakarta's security forces.
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Preparations are being made to repatriate the bodies of seven Australians killed in the tsunamis in Thailand. Foreign Affairs officials say they have serious concerns for a further nine missing Australians.
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Experts in Nepal study a site thought to contain the buried or cremated remains of up to 49 people.
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International teams of forensic scientists have begun the grim task of identifying victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. The gruesome job of identifying victims has been made all the more daunting by the sheer number of bodies piling up in morgues.
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With thousands of decomposing bodies piled up in a temporary morgue on Thailand's southern coast, hope was fading Saturday that any of more than 6,000 foreigners still missing would be found alive.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Western holidaymakers -- especially Scandinavians -- bore the brunt of deadly tidal waves that hit Thailand, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.