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Nov
11
2023
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Gaza officials say Israeli strikes kill 27 amid US unease at death toll

Gaza officials say Israeli strikes kill 27 amid US unease at death toll

WORLD
ISRAELI air strikes hit three Gaza hospitals and a school killing at least 27 people, and a ground battle was underway at another hospital, Palestinian officials said, as the U.S. voiced fresh disquiet at the war's mounting death toll. In his strongest comments to date on civilian suffering, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced the number of Palestinians killed - put by Gaza authorities at more than 11,000. Blinken welcomed the four-hour humanitarian Israeli pauses that the White House announced on Thursday but told reporters more action was needed to protect Gaza's civilians. "Far too many Palestinians have been killed; far too…
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Oct
27
2023
By DANIEL TROTTA and JULIA HARTE
Police hunt for man linked to major mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine

Police hunt for man linked to major mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine

WORLD
HUNDREDS of police searched the city of Lewiston and surrounding areas of Maine state for a man sought in connection with mass shootings at a bar and a bowling alley, as news outlets reported a death toll ranging from 16 to 22, with dozens more wounded. Officials said there were multiple casualties but declined to provide figures. State and local police identified Robert R. Card, 40, as a person of interest in the case after previously posting on Facebook photographs of a man wielding what appeared to be a semi-automatic rifle. The pictures from one of Wednesday's crime scenes showed…
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Oct
17
2023
By The African Mirror
Death toll from Congo boat accident rises to 52

Death toll from Congo boat accident rises to 52

NEWS
THE bodies of at least 52 people have been recovered from the Congo River after their boat capsized late last week, a provincial minister said, warning that the death toll could rise further with many still missing. The boat was carrying over 300 people when it overturned near the town of Mbandaka in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo during the night on Friday. Over the weekend 30 were confirmed to have drowned with 167 missing. Didier Mbula, provincial health minister for Equateur Province, told Reuters the number of dead had since risen. "We have recorded 52 bodies that were pulled out. The…
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Jun
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Death toll from Kenyan doomsday cult crosses 300

Death toll from Kenyan doomsday cult crosses 300

NEWS
THE death toll from a Kenyan starvation cult crossed 300 after authorities exhumed more bodies in a forest, in one of the worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church, led by Paul Mackenzie, who is accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could go to heaven before the end of the world. A total of 303 people have now died after 19 bodies were exhumed from mass graves in the Shakahola forest in the country's southeast. More than 600 people are…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
DRC: Flood victims buried, death toll rises above 400

DRC: Flood victims buried, death toll rises above 400

NEWS
ANGE KASONGO and SONIA ROLLEY DEAD bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country's deadliest disasters in recent history. Survivors looked on as humanitarian workers piled corpses into freshly dug mass graves over the weekend, in videos posted online. The workers have spent days recovering mud-caked bodies from the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in South Kivu province, where days of torrential rain triggered landslides and caused rivers to break their banks on Thursday. "We left…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Congo flood victims buried en masse as death toll rises above 400

Congo flood victims buried en masse as death toll rises above 400

NEWS
ANGE KASONGO and SONIA ROLLEY DEAD bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country's deadliest disasters in recent history. Survivors looked on as humanitarian workers piled corpses into freshly dug mass graves over the weekend, in videos posted online. The workers have spent days recovering mud-caked bodies from the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in South Kivu province, where days of torrential rain triggered landslides and caused rivers to break their banks on Thursday. "We left…
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Apr
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

NEWS
COASTGUARDS have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country's coast to 210 in 10 days. The bodies were in a decomposed state, suggesting they had been in the water for several days, said Houssem Eddine Jebabli told Reuters. The cumulative total of fatalities was unprecedented over such a short period, he said. Numbers of boats carrying migrants - most from sub-Saharan Africa, Syria and Sudan - trying to reach Italy from Tunisia have risen sharply in recent months, in part due to a crackdown on…
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Apr
26
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenya hunger cult deaths reach 89, minister prays survivors will ‘tell the story’

Kenya hunger cult deaths reach 89, minister prays survivors will ‘tell the story’

NEWS
GEORGE OBULUTSA THE death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said, calling for the group's leader to spend the rest of his life in prison. The toll has steadily risen in recent days as authorities have carried out exhumations of mass graves found in an 800-acre area of the Shakahola forest in eastern Kenya where the self-proclaimed Good News International Church was based. Most of the dead were recovered from shallow graves, while a small number were found alive and…
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Mar
19
2023
By The African Mirror
Malawians search for relatives buried under the mud as death toll jumps

Malawians search for relatives buried under the mud as death toll jumps

NEWS
IN Malawi, where floods swept away entire villages this month after a storm tore through its southern districts, police officers and soldiers dug for victims buried under the mud and rocks as the death toll rose sharply. The storm has pounded the southern African country as tropical Cyclone Freddy swept through the region killing more than 500 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar since it first made landfall in Africa in late February and circled back for a second time over the weekend. While the storm had dissipated, the rain continued to hamper rescue efforts as vehicles struggled on flooded…
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Mar
16
2023
By The African Mirror
At least 21 confirmed dead in Gabon ferry accident

At least 21 confirmed dead in Gabon ferry accident

NEWS
GERAUDS WILFRIED OBANGOME SEARCH teams in Gabon have recovered the dead bodies of 15 passengers of a ferry that sank off the West African country's coast last week, bringing the provisional death toll up to 21, the coordinator of rescue operations said. The Esther Miracle ferry was carrying 161 passengers from Libreville to Port-Gentil when it sank close to the coastal village of Nyonie on March 9. Authorities confirmed six deaths on Monday and were still searching for 31 missing people. Air force planes and diving teams had been sent to conduct daily search operations. Head of rescue operations Bekale Meyong said…
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