Hong Kong health officials confirmed this week that 1,100 cadavers remained in municipal cold storage facilities unclaimed because local funeral parlors have failed to keep up with the surging demand for funerals caused by Hong Kong’s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday.
Violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus broke out across the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand on Sunday during local observances of a Hindu religious festival, prompting authorities in two of the three states to impose curfews or gathering bans later Sunday, the Times of India reported on Monday.
Rep. Don Young (R-AK), the longest-serving member of the current Congress, died on Friday at the age of 88.
Just 300 coffins remained in Hong Kong as of March 17 due to a recent surge in coronavirus deaths, a funeral industry spokesman said.
Video footage showed the moment a man appeared to fatally break his neck while jumping over a subway turnstile in Queens.
A lorry driver near Calais died Sunday after an altercation with migrants who attempted to board his truck in an attempt to reach the UK.
A mob of Sikhs beat a man to death inside the Golden Temple, one of the most revered shrines in Sikhism, in Amritsar, India.
The body of an elderly man was dissected before a paying audience at a downtown Portland, Oregon, hotel last month.
Pope Francis visited a French military cemetery in Rome Tuesday, declaring that the tombs of the fallen in battle cry out “Peace!”
Police in Michigan say a man died Tuesday after he was pulled into a wood chipper when his jacket became stuck on a branch he was feeding into the machine.
The CDC announced this week that the national coronavirus death toll topped 675,000, surpassing the death toll of the Spanish Flu epidemic.
For many years, visitors at ZooTampa in Florida were able to get close to and touch the facility’s stingrays, but on Thursday the rays living in the touch tank were found dead.
Malaysia’s health ministry converted a shipping container into a makeshift morgue on Sunday in the western state of Selangor as proper morgues have reached capacity in the state amid a recent surge in new Chinese coronavirus infections and deaths. “The first
Crematoriums in Delhi began using their parking lots for mass funeral pyres in recent days as they operate beyond capacity amid a relentless surge of new Chinese coronavirus cases and deaths across India.
Established wedding shops in northern India have been forced to sell cremation items in recent months as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic shifts consumer demand from marriage ceremonies to funerals.
A crematorium in western India’s Gujurat state has been running “so long without a break” during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that some of the metal parts of its gas and firewood furnaces “have begun to melt,” Reuters news agency reported this week.
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has died at the age of 61 from a heart illness, Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday.
A 19-year-old homeless woman was found dead and wrapped in plastic Saturday in an abandoned warehouse in New York City, according to police.
A top doctor at the hospital in Omsk, Russia, that treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny immediately after his poisoning last summer has died, the hospital said Thursday.
One person died, and four others were found injured after a “suspicious” incident in New York City Thursday morning, authorities said.
A 34-year-old New York City woman was discovered dead in a Staten Island apartment’s garbage chute, police said.
A Secret Santa surprised an East Idaho family whose son died at ten years old with a special gift to remember him.
A California firefighter died this week while battling a wildfire officials said was sparked by a device used at a gender reveal party.
A Texas couple was arrested Saturday after deputies found their dead baby in a five-gallon bucket of tar in a shed behind their home.
A Houston, Texas, man is accused of fatally beating his two-year-old son after he lost his temper during potty training with the boy.
Jean Kennedy Smith, 92, died in her Manhattan residence on Wednesday, her daughter Kym confirmed to the New York Times.
A 5-year-old girl with a rare medical complication became the first child to die of the Chinese coronavirus in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday.
At least 16 people were killed Sunday when tornadoes ripped through the South, leaving more than one million residents without power.
A convicted child molester died after an alleged altercation with another inmate on March 13 at a prison in Sparta, Georgia.
Gov. Ralph Northam banned gatherings of over 100 people to help guard against the Chinese coronavirus in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday.
The United Kingdom has seen its first confirmed domestic death from coronavirus as the number of known cases doubled in two days to 116.
A couple died while lying next to each other inside their home as a powerful tornado ripped through Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, on Tuesday.
A pizza delivery driver got a sweet and unexpected surprise Saturday from a toddler in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
A judge ordered a mother to stand trial after she allegedly killed her two children in September at their home in Albany Township, Pennsylvania.
A young girl died this week after a doctor performed female genital mutilation (FGM) on her in the Assiut province of southern Egypt.
A mural honoring the late Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, appeared Monday in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
A police officer died after she was dragged by a suspect’s car following a traffic stop in Newport News, Virginia, on Thursday.
Autopsy of an Indiana woman’s baby has confirmed that she died by overdosing on the methamphetamine suffusing her mother’s breast milk.
A man died after his snowmobile fell through the ice on Moosehead Lake in Maine on Sunday night.
A convicted child molester was allegedly killed by a fellow inmate Thursday at a prison facility in Corcoran, California.
