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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 ...
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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster casualties. Satellite image on 16 March 2011 of the four damaged reactor buildings. Date. 11 March 2011. ( 2011-03-11) Location. Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. Coordinates. 37°25′17″N 141°1′57″E.
The Yemeni civil war ( Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اليمنية, romanized : al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-yamanīyah) is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi -led Presidential Leadership Council and the Mahdi al-Mashat -led Supreme Political Council, along with their supporters and ...