Orphans and scrap wood coffins in village buried by mudslide
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Cristina Buen sits patiently as a neighbor hammers together a coffin made of scrap wood for her younger sister Crissa Mae. The smell of death hangs heavy in the air.
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As nameless bodies are bulldozed into mass graves, the lack of physical remains is intensifying the grief for families still wondering about missing loved ones.
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The old school campus is dilapidated. There is little food, water from only a single tap, no toilets. Families sleep in the open or under tents made of scavenged tree branches and lengths of cloth used as skirts during the day.
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The number of people killed in mudslides in southern Bangladesh rises to around 118, officials say.
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Funeral processions snaked through this grief-racked town as relatives buried victims of the school siege in southern Russia in rows of freshly dug graves Sunday.
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PADANG, Indonesia - Days of colossal earthquakes and tsunami warnings have forced traumatized Indonesian villagers to seek safety in the last place imaginable: graveyards.
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Rescue workers dug through the ruins of this tsunami-devastated town in search of bodies Thursday, as frightened locals woke up from a third night spent in hillside camps overlooking the sea. The death toll stood at 531, with more than 270 missing.
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PHILIPPINES: The tides of mud carved a random trail of destruction through Philippine towns, robbing already impoverished residents of children, houses and hope.
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Friends and family gathered Saturday on a windy beach to bid farewell to 10 people who were killed when a mudslide damaged more than two dozen homes in the free-spirited oceanfront village of La Conchita.
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DARAGA, Philippines, Dec 3 - Villagers in the central Philippines buried their dead in mass graves on Friday after landslides and raging flood waters triggered by Typhoon Durian killed hundreds.
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No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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Days of colossal earthquakes and tsunami warnings have forced traumatized Indonesian villagers to seek safety in the last place imaginable: graveyards.
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Mothers wailed over the coffins of their children yesterday and dozens of townsmen dug graves in a football field-size piece of scrubland next to the cemetery.
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BART TOWNSHIP, Pa., Oct. 5 -- The horse-drawn buggies of a mournful Amish community trotted slowly past roadblocks Thursday morning as the community began burying four of the five young girls slain inside their schoolhouse by a man tormented by dreams of molesting young girls.
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At least 15 people were buried when a  landslide triggered by a fierce typhoon struck a mountain  village in Taiwan, a government official said on Thursday.
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In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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At least 71 people are killed in mudslides after heavy rain in the Bangladeshi town of Chittagong.