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The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) [nb 1] was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. [34] An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized ...
A. List of accidents and disasters by death toll. List of elevator accidents. List of aircraft accidents and incidents by number of ground fatalities. List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents. List of airship accidents. List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll. List of the deadliest tropical cyclones.
A report published by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995 put the death toll due to the German occupation at 13.7 million civilians (including Jews): 7.4 million victims of Nazi genocide and reprisals; 2.2 million persons deported to Germany for forced labor; and 4.1 million famine and disease deaths in occupied territory. Sources published ...
The deadliest tornadoes by far have occurred in a small area of Bangladesh and East India. In this 8,000-square-mile (21,000 km 2) area, 24 of the 42 tornadoes which are known to have killed 100 or more people occurred. [1] This is probably due to the high population density and poor economic status of the area, as well as a lack of early ...
April 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM. By Sarah Morland. (Reuters) - More than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti from January through March, up 53% from the last three months of ...
13. Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica. 1996. 114 patients received an overdose of radiation from a cobalt-60 source that was being used for radiotherapy. [13] : 299, 303. 11. Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza, Spain. 1990 December. Cancer patients receiving radiotherapy; 11 fatalities and 27 patients were injured.
This raised the number of victims from the World Trade Center site to 2,606, and the overall 9/11 death toll to 2,996. As of August 2013 [update] , medical authorities concluded that 1,140 people who worked, lived, or studied in Lower Manhattan at the time of the attacks have been diagnosed with cancer as a result of "exposure to toxins at ...
The National Commission for Radiation Protection of Ukraine disputed the 6,000 estimate as much too high, maintaining that a Chernobyl-cleanup-related death toll of 6,000 would outstrip confirmed liquidator deaths from all other causes—including old age and car crashes—during the period in question. [citation needed]