A man in South Africa was horrified when he opened the casket at his dead wife's funeral and found a stranger inside. Staff at a funeral home accidentally put a different woman's body inside a coffin that should have contained the body of Michael Galant's 58-year-old wife Magdalene, the Daily Mail reported. ...
05:22 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Nagaon: The body of a new-born was recovered from a hospital dustbin in Nagaon town of Assam on Saturday. The body was spotted at around 11 am from the bin near one of the gates at the Bhogeswari Phukanani Civil Hospital, police sources said. Some people noticed a few stray dogs rummaging through the dustbin and tugging at the body. They chased away the dogs. Hospital authorities said the half-eaten...
08:56 PM, Nov 17, 2012
Washington: The dead body of Osama bin Laden was identified by a young girl who was in the room where he was killed after his wives refused to name the elusive al-Qaeda chief, a new book by an ex-US Navy Seal has claimed. Matt Bissonnette, 36, in his tell-all account of the operation titled 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden', has described...
10:01 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Rome: A 43-year-old Italian man hid the body of his 87-year-old aunt in her apartment, and collected her monthly pension of 2,000 euros, AKI news agency reported. Fireman broke into the apartment in Benevento city and discovered the decomposing corpse of Nunziatina Perna concealed in two plastic bags, after neighbours alerted police to a foul odour coming from the property. Her nephew - named only as C.M. - was questioned...
11:57 AM, Jun 16, 2012
Nicosia: Three people, including an Indian, have been jailed for stealing the corpse of a former Cyprus president from his grave two-and-a-half years ago, a media report said. A three-judge assize court in Nicosia on Monday imposed a 20-month prison sentence on two brothers, one of whom has already been in jail for murdering two women several years ago, and an 18-month sentence on an immigrant from India. The court...
09:17 AM, May 17, 2011
New Delhi: Finally, after 6 days, a helicopter landed in the helipad in Itanagar's Governor House on Thursday afternoon carrying Dorjee Khandu's dead body from Tawang. The MI 17 helicopter brought the body after a painstaking search in Sela Pass, which finally resulted in locating the helicopter debris and the dead bodies in Luguthang. As the helicopter landed, jawans of Indo-Tibetan Border Police carried the coffin of Khandu to the ...
12:31 AM, May 06, 2011
Mumbai: A young woman's body, bundled in a bag, was found at the busy Churchgate railway station in south Mumbai on Monday, railway police said. The woman, aged between 20 to 25 years, was suspected to have been strangulated, police said, adding that the body did not appear to be decomposed pointing to the fact that the woman might have been killed just a few hours earlier. According to the...
04:16 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Police are not ruling out possibility of deaths being handiwork of one person. ...
02:05 AM, Oct 15, 2009
Colombo: India warmed up for the ICC World Twenty20 starting September 18 with a comfortable 26-run win over hosts Sri Lanka at the P Sara Oval on Tuesday, but the victory was overshadowed by an injury to Gautam Gambhir that sent him to a local hospital. Batting on 5, the left-handed opener was struck on the wrist by a sharp delivery from Lasith Malinga. Wincing in pain, Gambhir was given...
04:42 PM, Jun 26, 2008
Mohammad Bashir, who is from Pakistan, is being stopped from carrying the body of his nephew beyond the Wagah border. ...
11:22 PM, Feb 21, 2007
Railway Minister Lalu Yadav has little on offer for common people who want to transport their dead. ...
02:31 PM, Sep 29, 2006
