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K&R News

2014-03-29 | Washington mudslide: Official toll stays same as crews find more bodies, but no IDs yet
The grueling process of locating, extracting and identifying human remains from the unstable debris covering the community of Oso northeast of Seattle has slowed the release of information by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office to a trickle.

2014-03-28 | Yolanda victims’ bodies still being found; identification process to last 3 years
Although the body was now in an advanced state of decay, they were able to identify her through her clothes. She was found inside a ruined radio station in Tacloban City by authorities who were cleaning up rubble. A victim of Typhoon Yolanda, her body had lain there since November, while all this time her family searched for her and feared the worst.

2014-03-28 | Why identifying mudslide victims seems to take so long
As of Friday night, the number of missing and likely dead remained at 90. Another 35 people, who may have been in the area at the time of the mudslide, are listed as “still unknown at this time,” officials said. But the number of dead remained unclear Friday night, even as the county sought to clarify the process by which officials confirm fatalities. Gary Haakenson, the county’s executive director for public safety, said the number remains at 17, unchanged from the morning despite a daylong search.

2014-03-27 | Gov't efforts vs KFRG in Zambo yield results with arrest of kidnap leader
Authorities tagged Aburi as a leader of a notorious group, which is linked with the Basilan-based Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) who was responsible for as series of kidnapping and extortion activities in Zamboanga Peninsula.

2014-03-27 | Uganda Lake Albert boat disaster: 107 bodies found
Rescue workers in Uganda have so far recovered 107 bodies, including those of 57 children, after a boat capsized on Saturday on Lake Albert, a government minister has said. The boat was taking refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo back to their home country when it capsized. It had a capacity to carry only 80 passengers, but up to 250 people were on board, officials said.

2014-03-25 | The 7 countries you’re most likely to be kidnapped
WHILE the odds of you getting kidnapped on holiday are about as good as catching an on-time flight from a budget airline, if it happens you’re probably not gonna have Liam Neeson around to kill half of France in order to rescue you.

2014-03-24 | Bodies of Fleming couple found in north Florida river
Grace Maynard was found wearing a life jacket, but without identification, according to a press release from the FWC. Investigators found a floating cooler three miles upstream with her husband's wallet inside.

2014-03-24 | DNA samples taken: 35 bodies of Hub tragedy yet to be identified
At least 36 people were killed when two passenger coaches and a pickup rammed into an overturned truck on the RCD Highway near Hub. All the vehicles caught fire after the collision since at least one coach and the truck were allegedly carrying oil smuggled from Iran. The bodies of all the victims, some of them said to be employees of Pakistan Navy, were charred beyond recognition.

2014-03-23 | Petrol station worker jailed for helping £500,000 kidnap plot of British couple in India
On arrival in Chennai, they were met at the airport by a man purporting to be from their hotel. He took the couple to a waiting vehicle where they were kidnapped at knifepoint and driven away from the airport. They were told they would be killed if they did not pay a ransom of £500,000. The ransom demand was later reduced to £300,000.

2014-03-22 | pleads guilty for trying to kidnap toddler for ransom
Battikh was having financial trouble and intended to demand a ransom of $500,000 from the wealthy family of the three-year-old victim. ​Battikh tried to kidnap the boy on the afternoon of Dec. 19, 2012, when his father went to pick him up from daycare.