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K&R News

2012-07-13 | Part two: A coroner's nightmare
The refrigerated trucks are set up and running, bodies already inside. Members of a federal mortuary team — known as DMORT, short for Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team — have arrived. They’re setting up their equipment inside an abandoned fertilizer warehouse, a building without running water or air conditioning, the new makeshift morgue. The team’s DNA expert is stuck in Boston, and the process of identifying bodies won’t start until tomorrow.

2012-07-13 | Families ‘must be ready’ to see Sukhoi remains
The chief of the National Police’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) unit is advising the families of the Sukhoi plane crash victims who remain mentally fragile not to see the remains of their loved ones. Sr. Comr. Anton Castilani told The Jakarta Post that despite attempts from officials to reconstruct the bodies, many body parts have yet to be found.

2012-07-13 | Nigeria: Kidnapped Pastor Found Dead in Imo After Payment of N500,000 Ransom
Owerri — The lifeless body of Pastor Anslem Iwuala has been picked up by members of his immediate family, seven days after he was kidnapped and a N500,000 paid to the hoodlums to secure his freedom.

2012-07-13 | The untold story of Continental Flight 11
Since 2008, I have been searching for the coroner or the FBI reports to find the accurate names and other information about the Continental Airlines Boeing 707 Flight 11 that crashed near Unionville on May 22, 1962, killing all 45 crew members and passengers. Despite letters to Continental Airlines and other inquiries, I was unsuccessful.

2012-07-13 | How prostitute organized kidnap of customer
Esther Felix was a regular call girl at Pekas, a popular night club at the highbrow Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, until recently when she ran into trouble for organizing the abduction of one of her customers, who happened to be a citizen of the United States of America and the son of a Lagos-based business man (names withheld).

2012-07-13 | Afghan militants kidnap two charity workers and their guides
Two foreign medical workers and their three Afghan translators have been abducted in a remote part of north-east Afghanistan.

2012-07-13 | Kidnap Ordeal
The wave of kidnappings that has hit the country is not confined to a particular area and is spread all over. One of the biggest worries is that the Taliban are employing kidnappings for ransom as a fundraising tool.

2012-07-13 | Railway has tough time identifying deceased
Identification of bodies became difficult for the railway employees at Penukonda station in Andhra Pradesh where the Hampi-Bangalore Express rammed into a stationary goods train, killing 25 persons on Tuesday.

2012-07-13 | Nigeria: Prominent Nsukka Businessman Kidnapped, Wife Escapes
The kidnappers of Okey Ike, a prominent building materials businessman, took him away with his car to an unknown place only to abandon the car at a distance from the point he was kidnapped. Mrs. Ike, wife of the kidnapped businessman told Crime Alert that she was with her husband when the kidnappers struck and abducted him.

2012-07-13 | Afghan gunmen seek ransom to free aid workers
KABUL Gunmen in Afghanistan are demanding money for the release of five aid workers, including two western women doctors, held in remote mountains and authorities have opened negotiations in the hope of freeing them, an investigator said on Thursday.