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New York City considers mass grave in park for virus victims

Alan Feuer and Liam Stack, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 07 07:11 AM

NEW YORK — New York City officials are starting to lay contingency plans if deaths from the coronavirus outbreak begin to overwhelm the capacity of morgues: temporarily burying the dead on public land.  Read more »

Remembering Yolanda victims on All Souls Day

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 02 09:33 PM

People pray for their departed loved ones on All Souls Day at the mass grave for victims of Supertyphoon Yolanda in Tacloban City on November 2, 2019. A cross was erected in the middle of the mass grave to honor the memory of more than 6,000 Filipinos who perished during the onslaught of Yolanda that devastated the province in 2013. Read more »

Families searching for missing relatives find 13 bodies in Mexico

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 26 07:35 AM

MEXICO—Families searching for their disappeared relatives in Mexico have found 13 bodies in a mass grave, authorities said, the latest such discovery in a country with nearly 50,000 missing persons. Read more »

In Mexico, 35 bodies found in mass graves

Agence France-Presse 
Posted at May 12 08:39 AM

Local authorities have discovered the remains of 35 people in mass graves in violent Jalisco state, on Mexico's central Pacific coast, officials said Saturday.   Read more »

Remains of hundreds of Jews unearthed in Nazi-era mass grave in Belarus

Reuters
Posted at Feb 27 06:04 AM

BREST, Belarus - Soldiers in Belarus have unearthed the bones of hundreds of people shot during World War Two from a mass grave discovered at the site of a ghetto where Jews lived under the Nazis. Read more »

Remembering Yolanda

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 02:00 AM

UP Diliman students join other climate justice advocates commemorate the 5th anniversary of Typhoon Yolanda during a candle lighting event in Quezon City on Thursday. The students called on the government to take bolder action to address climate change to prevent life-threatening weather events like Yolanda. Read more »

Prayers for Yolanda victims

AFP Photo
Updated as of Nov 08 07:14 PM

A survivor places flowers and candles at a mass grave for victims of super typhoon Yolanda to commemorate its fifth anniversary, in Tacloban City, Leyte on Thursday. Read more »

Mass grave ng mga namatay sa bagyong Sendong, binisita ng mga kaanak

Joey Taguba Yecyec, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 02 06:59 PM

Sa record ng City Memorial Park, nasa higit 200 bangkay ang inilibing sa mass grave. Read more »

Yolanda’s grave

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 01 12:15 AM

Workers prepare a pathway strip for visitors at the Holy Cross Memorial Park on Tacloban on Wednesday. The government is set to install a monument in memory of those who perished during super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) five years ago. Read more »