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Post-mortems have been completed on nearly 400 of the flood victim bodies

The Health Department says the Pathology Forensic Team has finished post-mortems on 377 of the 455 bodies recovered after the floods in KwaZulu-Natal and hopes to complete post-mortems of 50 bodies on Wednesday. Premier Sihle Zikalala on Tuesday said at least 448 people had died in the floods. The Health Ministry also says in a statement that it is estimated that the cost to repair damaged medical infrastructure in the province […]

20 April 2022

International News

Bodies of dozens of suspected COVID dead found in India’s Ganges

Dozens of bodies of people believed to have died from COVID-19 have washed up on the banks of the Ganges river in northern India, officials said on Monday. District official Ashok Kumar said that about 40 corpses washed up in Buxar district near the border between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, two of India’s poorest states. “We have directed concerned officials to dispose of all bodies, to either bury or cremate […]

11 May 2021

Local

Western Cape SAPS arrest suspect as three bodies are discovered in Wolseley

South African Police Service (SAPS) officers in Wolseley, north-east of Cape Town, have arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the murder of three people, the SAPS in the Western Cape said on Sunday. The suspect was arrested by police officers after he was seen on Saturday evening "dragging something that turned out to be the body of a local 20-year-old woman" in the Pine Valley informal settlement in Wolseley, […]

26 October 2020

Local

Bodies of 2 babies discovered in fridge at a CT house

Police are investigating after the bodies of two infants were discovered in a fridge in Cape Town. Police made the discovery at a house in Wesbank earlier this week after receiving a tip-off from the property's owner. It's unclear what led to the deaths of the two babies and a post mortem is being conducted to determine the cause as well as their ages. While a 38-year-old woman has been […]

4 January 2020

International News

Israel says holding bodies of two Gazans

Israel is holding the bodies of two Palestinians killed near border with the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official confirmed on Sunday. Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the outgoing Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, said Israel will not return the bodies of the two Palestinians until two Israelis held by Palestinian group Hamas are returned, Anadolu Agnecy reports. “Israel will not rest and the residents of Gaza will not know […]

2 April 2018

International News

Bodies decomposing in Mocoa morgue after landslides

Colombians are preparing to bury scores of decomposing bodies as rescuers continue to search for victims of weekend flooding and landslides that devastated a city in the southern part of the country, killing at least 273 people. Desperate families queued for blocks in the heat to search a morgue for loved ones who died when several rivers burst their banks in the early hours of Saturday, sending water, mud and […]

4 April 2017

bodies

Post-mortems have been completed on nearly 400 of the flood victim bodies

Bodies of dozens of suspected COVID dead found in India’s Ganges

Western Cape SAPS arrest suspect as three bodies are discovered in Wolseley

Bodies of 2 babies discovered in fridge at a CT house

Israel says holding bodies of two Gazans

Bodies decomposing in Mocoa morgue after landslides

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