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[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Family members of Palestinians slain by Israel published a letter on Wednesday officially refusing Israel’s terms of release concerning the remains of dozens of bodies belonging to Palestinians who were shot dead during alleged, attempted or actual attacks against Israelis. Israeli authorities have demanded that families of the slain Palestinians agree[…]
The burnt bodies of three men were discovered in Lwandle, Cape Town, on Sunday morning, Western Cape police said. Officers had driven into Asanda Village around 02:30 to follow up on complaint of a murder taking place, said police spokesperson, Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana. “…when they arrived at the scene, they[…]
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of nine more climbers from Malaysia’s highest peak a day after it was struck by a strong earthquake, bringing the total number of dead to 11. Masidi Manjun, Sabah State’s tourism minister, announced the updated casualty figures via Twitter on Saturday, saying that eight[…]
A Gugulethu man, arrested in connection with multiple cases of murder and rape in the Cape Peninsula during recent months, appeared in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court on Monday, Cape Town police said. “The suspect appeared on a rape case and we are currently in the process to formulate further charges.[…]
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