Remains of two airmen returned from Tibet crash
U S and Chinese recovery teams retrieved the remains of two American airmen killed in a 1942 Tibetan Himalaya airlift crash. The site was found in 1993 and the bodies were handed to U S officials at Beijing's Babaoshan Cemetery in a solemn ceremony. The broader operation recovered five crew members with three bodies previously returned.
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Beajing
China
U.S
Tibet
Himalayas
India
Kunming
Estonia Ferry Sinks Off Baltic Coast Trapping 900 Aboard
Rescue teams battled 20 foot seas and gale winds as the Baltic Sea ferry Estonia sank after midnight near Uto Finland with about 964 people aboard including 776 passengers and 188 crew. Vast numbers remained missing and feared dead while 100 to 125 were rescued in frigid 54 degree water.
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Turku
Finland
Estonia
Baltic Sea
Raimo Tiilikainen
Coast Guard
Uto
Tallinn
Stockholm
Sweden
Norrkoping
Esa Saari
Henrik Sillaste
Associated Press
Sillaste
Doctor flees hospital amid plague fear in New Delhi
In New Delhi, Dr S J Rehman deputy director of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases fled Infectious Diseases Hospital while being treated for plague symptoms prompting a formal complaint. The panic spread from Surat where pneumonic plague has caused dozens of cases and deaths.
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New Delhi
India
S.J. Rehman
National Institute of Communicable Diseases
Surat
Rehman
Tal
Calcutta
P.V. Narasimha
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