The 13 fishermen were found dead inside two Chinese cargo ships in October 2011 on the Thai side of the river.

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The three Shafia sisters -- Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 -- were found dead inside a car that plunged into the Rideau Canal in Kingston on June 30, 2009.

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The refinery disaster follows a gun battle inside Yare prison on August 19th that left at least 26 inmates dead, and the collapse four days earlier of a bridge linking Caracas with eastern Venezuela.

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On Oct. 2, 1998, Selvamalar, 32 weeks pregnant at the time, was shot dead inside her house, along with her husband, another young woman and two men.

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