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  • There are fears that the death toll will rise as the weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • The death toll was initially reported at around 250, but was later revised to 300.
  • Clashes between police and opposition protesters in Zanzibar over disputed elections have led to an unconfirmed death toll of 37.
  • The death toll from yesterday's crash is still rising.
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  • As the death toll grew, there were poignant scenes at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire as five coffins draped with the union flag arrived at RAF Lyneham and were met by sombre crowds on the town's streets.
  • There they were confined in an utterly alien climate, with a resulting death toll of some forty percent, until the winter of 1913-14.
  • The civilian death toll jumped and support ebbed away. Times, Sunday Times
  • The changes are being made to address the rising death toll from crashes caused by inexperienced and reckless young drivers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll rises and the dangers increase as the two men close in on the solution. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll was widely expected to rise.
  • The death toll has now risen to 200.
  • Without action, the death toll is predicted to climb steeply. Times, Sunday Times
  • At least 35,000 people have died in the civil conflict over the past decade and the death toll from civil strife since 1948 is estimated at 300,000.
  • Thousands are still buried under rubble and the death toll may hit 50,000. The Sun
  • Although the death toll, at about 190, is a fraction of the number killed in America, this brutal attack on a business capital has traumatised an entire country.
  • In the ensuing chaos, she herself could have become another grim statistic in the terrible death toll of Sabra and Shatila, had her father not rescued her and her family.
  • The July death toll was the highest monthly total in nearly a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Memorial uses conservative criteria to calculate its figures, and the true death toll is probably much higher.
  • The death toll was later revised downwards to 689.
  • There are fears that the death toll will rise as the weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
  • This annual death toll amounts to 10 million - a patently unsustainable figure.
  • The latest death toll in the Turkish earthquake is over 2000.
  • His remarks were typical of the government to attribute the death toll on the border to the coyotes.
  • The death toll from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is expected to run into the tens of thousands as local and international rescue teams continue searching through the ruins of north-eastern coastal cities for survivors. Japanese tsunami aftermath: life and death along a devastated coast
  • The official death toll was 42, most of them children; local officials and parents put it even higher.
  • The civil war that followed claimed far more civilians than combatants; by some estimates the death toll exceeds 200,000.
  • The spiralling civilian death toll has spurred international calls for the fighting to end. Times, Sunday Times
  • AL GOODMAN, CNN MADRID BUREAU CHIEF: As the day wears on here in Madrid, the death toll steadily climbing. CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2004
  • The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.
  • They fear the death toll will soar if the huge slick is swept ashore during the upcoming hurricane season. The Sun
  • The death toll in the earthquake has been put at over one thousand.
  • Official reports put the death toll at under one hundred, but unofficial estimates speak of at least two hundred dead.
  • The confirmed death toll of the disaster has risen to four, with 22 people still missing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Twenty-one people sought medical assistance for craniocerebral injuries, "said the official, adding that the death toll could rise. Undefined
  • The death toll mounted .
  • Memorial uses conservative criteria to calculate its figures, and the true death toll is probably much higher.
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • The death toll in the car bomb explosions has now risen to 28 with 80 seriously injured ad over 100 suffering with other injuries.
  • The confirmed death toll of the disaster has risen to four, with 22 people still missing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Others set the death toll higher, at up to 1,000 fatalities.
  • Around the Indian Ocean the death toll from the disaster stands at more than 158,000.
  • The health ministry has warned that the death toll may rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll is thought to have reached double figures.
  • When disaster strikes , a troubling human response can inflate the death toll: people freeze up.
  • Independent sources say that the death toll from the earthquake runs into thousands.
  • The mounting civilian death toll has brought the war home to millions across the Middle East.
  • The death toll may be far higher because many unexplained deaths go unrecorded. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the death toll rises, what is the way forward in Afghanistan? Times, Sunday Times
  • The death count, the death toll officially won't be known for still more days and weeks to come, Lou.
  • The death toll on Sumatra is now at least 70, and is expected to rise as reports come in from rural areas. Dual Indonesian Earthquakes Today
  • But even this ratio puts the best possible light on the contribution made by employment to the avoidable death toll.
  • The death toll is now confirmed at 55,239 people in the province, with another 24,949 missing, Sichuan Vice-Governor Li Chengyun told a Beijing press conference yesterday.
  • The death toll is set to top 29,000 with most of the 4,500 missing people likely to be declared dead.
  • Doctors said that the death toll was expected to rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • Depending on who you spoke with, the death toll ranged anywhere from two to ten.
  • The fans' deaths brought the death toll to nine in this year's race week.
  • The death toll exceeded the 1987 Hungerford Massacre, which left 17 dead, including the gunman, Michael Ryan.
  • The latest death toll in the Turkish earthquake is over 2000.
  • In the 21st century the death toll from famine thus far is 600,000. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some 20 years earlier the death toll was 773.
  • The Health and Safety Executive must be commended for its attempts to cut the death toll.
  • The health ministry has warned that the death toll may rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll is expected to rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll continues to mount.
  • The death toll from a single such explosion could easily be over 10 million people.
  • It transpired that the couple were among many passengers travelling under assumed names, which along with stowaways led to confusion when calculating the final death toll of around 1,500.
  • The associated fighting exacted a terrible price of more than 3.5 million deaths, mainly from starvation and disease, according to aid agency estimates; the worst death toll since the Second World War.
  • The confirmed death toll of the disaster has risen to four, with 22 people still missing. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are many factors that give us a high pedestrian death toll as there are for those killed when travelling in cars, bakkies, taxis, buses and on the backs of open trucks.
  • But, in fact, as we often do see in these cfcs, it is many years before actual death tolls do emerge. CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2006
  • The July death toll was the highest monthly total in nearly a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Collision-risk estimates suggest a similar death toll for merlin, a species of falcon, and the loss of between 200 and 250 red-throated divers.
  • The official death toll stands at 53.
  • The 2003 death toll from the deadly virus was only one.
  • The death toll of people trapped by racing incoming tides on the night of February 5 now stands at 20.
  • Gaza officials put the Palestinian death toll from the week-long Israeli operations at around 500.
  • The spiralling civilian death toll has spurred international calls for the fighting to end. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll was 325, with careless boaters killing 81 of those manatees.
  • The death toll from yesterday's crash is still rising.
  • Presumably she judged that once the death toll passed the quarter million mark, it became fair game for a bit of a snicker.
  • Officials yesterday warned the death toll was likely to rise. The Sun
  • Last night the death toll continued to mount at base camp - a virtual tent city that was engulfed by avalanches just before noon local time. The Sun
  • As we speak, the total death toll is still unclear, but it amounts to several thousands.
  • Officials yesterday warned the death toll was likely to rise. The Sun
  • But even this ratio puts the best possible light on the contribution made by employment to the avoidable death toll.
  • The public is horrified by the mounting death toll and worried about how long the war will last. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the 21st century the death toll from famine thus far is 600,000. Times, Sunday Times
  • KINGSTON (AFP) - Slum dwellers in Kingston are seething with anger at Jamaica's security forces 'house-to-house searches for a powerful druglord, with the death toll rising but no trace of the operation's target. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Witnesses said they feared that the death toll could rise because the building was packed with people at the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are fears that the death toll will rise as the weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
  • But as the death toll rapidly rises, it is a threat worth making. Times, Sunday Times
  • The confirmed death toll of the disaster has risen to four, with 22 people still missing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Danger 2: The years-long mania for sharply increasing countermeasure development in high bio-security labs is putting us at higher and higher risk of the theft of weapons-grade anthrax that could make the commission report a self-fulfilling prophecy -- but even then not plausibly anywhere near such a death toll. Crying Wolf: The Terrorist Crop-Duster
  • An official said that the death toll was expected to rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • In American Samoa, a U.S. territory, the death toll was officially 14, but could rise, said officials.
  • As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
  • The spiralling civilian death toll has spurred international calls for the fighting to end. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll is the highest on record and experts blame irregular weather patterns and people going off piste. The Sun
  • The death toll in the earthquake has been put at over one thousand.
  • The death toll through famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan was certainly lower than in the famines that resulted from the British pillage of Ireland and India.
  • The death toll is thought to have reached double figures.
  • The death toll inflicted by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low. The Sun
  • Workers are fighting to prevent a nuclear meltdown, the death toll is rising, and energy and food shortages are rippling across the nation.
  • Rescue operations were being hampered by severe winter weather and the death toll was expected to soar.
  • When disaster strikes , a troubling human response can inflate the death toll: people freeze up.
  • The day after the explosion the death toll had risen to 90.
  • The civilian death toll jumped and support ebbed away. Times, Sunday Times
  • The July death toll was the highest monthly total in nearly a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many expressed disbelief that the death toll was not higher.
  • The death toll may be far higher because many unexplained deaths go unrecorded. Times, Sunday Times
  • While the Indian Air Force kept dropping food and medical supplies, it is the fishermen who've kept the death toll as low as it is.
  • There are fears that the death toll will rise as the weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are fears that the death toll will rise as the weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
  • It said nine of those injured were in critical condition, suggesting that the death toll might rise.
  • The death toll continues to mount.
  • Villagers are to be given the chance to have their say over £1.8m plans to reduce the death toll at a crossroads where two major roads meet near Selby.
  • Laden with burlap bags and potato sacks, they boarded trains for whichever destination they could get a ticket as the death toll jumped by 25 per cent in the Chinese capital.
  • The Hindu of May 20 reported that the death toll in the coastal districts had reached 817 and was expected to rise.
  • If the civil unrest continues, the death toll will rise.
  • Our fears about a nuclear strike traditionally include the horrific death toll, the living envying the dead, etc.
  • But even this ratio puts the best possible light on the contribution made by employment to the avoidable death toll.
  • With hundreds still unaccounted for, and others in critical condition, the death toll is expected to rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the countries that suffered the highest death tolls, like Indonesia and Sri Lanka, say they lack the funds to finance it.
  • The official death toll stands at 53.
  • Doctors said the death toll could rise as bodies were pulled from the rubble. The Sun
  • By that point, the news cycle was revolv­ing around the fact that the terrorism-related death toll of the inno­cent in Lon­don had belat­edly risen to 53. Just Egypt? « Snarkmarket
  • The death toll would have been far worse but for the accidental detonation of an explosive device, which killed two of the assailants on a pavement. Times, Sunday Times
  • While the tidal waves wreaked havoc, the death toll from epidemics caused by diseases such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid could be far higher.
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • Independent sources say that the death toll from the earthquake runs into thousands.
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • Independent sources say that the death toll from the earthquake runs into thousands.
  • Tuesday's report, by a state-appointed fact-finding mission, said 846 protesters were killed in the violence - a death toll more than twice that of previous official estimates. Report: Mubarak Complicit in Protest Deaths, Excessive Force Used
  • Today the death toll from the tsunamis is put at 70,000. Alternative universe
  • Four dead, one missing in Thai mudslide AT least four people have been killed in a mudslide which swept away houses in a village in northern Thailand, raising the death toll from two months of flooding to 173. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • A death toll that tops nearly one dozen in the first day of a military ceasefire offers little grounds for hope.
  • Officials said the death toll could rise, with many victims trapped in the rubble of buildings that were damaged in the tremors earlier this month. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
  • The death toll has risen to 83.
  • Insurgent attacks continue almost daily and death tolls mount.
  • Increasingly repressive measures to crush the rebellion have resulted in a death toll of 1,100 guerrillas, police and civilians over the past four years.
  • There are fears that the death toll will rise as the weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've made a few people blush mind you, but the death toll is still at zero.
  • The previous death toll for children was 307, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on December 2, denouncing what she called "ruthless repression" by Syrian forces. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • The death toll of 135 would have been higher had it not been for the chaplain. The Sun
  • The official death toll has now risen above 5,000 but the true total is feared to be more than double that. The Sun
  • Public opposition to nuclear power has lost some of its intensity as the death toll directly attributable to the disaster has stayed stubbornly low. Times, Sunday Times
  • Earlier, the ITAR-Tass news agency had said the death toll was 28, citing unnamed officials in the city fire department.
  • Officials yesterday warned the death toll was likely to rise. The Sun
  • The changes are being made to address the rising death toll from crashes caused by inexperienced and reckless young drivers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll has steadily risen to 38 as more bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • The death toll from a massive rockslide Saturday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo has climbed to 31, a medical source said on Sunday.
  • Residents have urged the county's traffic chiefs to fund separate safety measures in a bid to halt the mounting death toll.
  • The death toll has risen to 83.
  • A woman has died after several months on a hunger strike in protest against prison reforms, bringing the death toll from the fasts to 20.
  • Jon Friedman, the media guy at Marketwatch, can drive me batty on occasion and this is one of those occasions: He bitches at news media for reporting at least one public official’s worst-case fear of the death toll in New Orleans and then nya-nyas them for being wrong and then acts of as if, gee, it’s not such a bad story after all. Missing the point « BuzzMachine
  • A death toll that tops nearly one dozen in the first day of a military ceasefire offers little grounds for hope.
  • No doubt, the number of survivors eking out a precarious existence must far exceed the death toll.
  • Estimates on the death toll are a guess as of now, but will probably be in excess of 10,000.
  • The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
  • The death toll in Eastern Europe was climbing yesterday as quickly as the temperatures were dropping. Times, Sunday Times
  • The official death toll has now reached 7 000.
  • The death toll is 2, 276, all by fire or drowning.
  • The highest death tolls were in the northern states of Borno, Katsina and Bauchi, comprised mostly of small Muslim villages that have been hit by heavy rains. Cholera kills more than 1,500 people in Nigeria
  • Another person was killed by the postflood infectious disease leptospirosis on Thursday, bringing the death toll to nine.
  • Drivers have borne the brunt of the blame for their part in our high road death toll.
  • The official death toll has now reached 7 000.
  • The death toll stood at five with 23 still missing last night. The Sun
  • The death toll would have been far worse but for the accidental detonation of an explosive device, which killed two of the assailants on a pavement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Official reports put the death toll at under one hundred, but unofficial estimates speak of at least two hundred dead.
  • Officials estimate the final death toll could reach 35,000.
  • As every hour passes, the death toll from the most powerful earthquake in four decades climbs steadily.
  • The Hindu of May 20 reported that the death toll in the coastal districts had reached 817 and was expected to rise.
  • We have been told to expect massive death tolls from new strains, from such alien diseases as ebola or the flesh-eating bug, necrotising fasciitis.
  • The exact death count is impossible to determine, but some historians have placed the minimum death toll between six and eleven thousand men; other postwar Allied reports have tabulated that only 54,000 of the 75,000 prisoners reached their destination — taken together, the figures document a rate of death from one in four up to two in seven of those on the death march. The Greatest Military Defeats In U.S. History | myFiveBest
  • However, the official statistics only serve to camouflage the real death toll, which some unofficial estimates put at almost twice the reported level.
  • Aid workers and troops struggled to organise relief as officials warned that the death toll would rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll may be far higher because many unexplained deaths go unrecorded. Times, Sunday Times
  • Germany's national disease agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), said the death toll rose to 35 at the weekend, but the rate of new infections was declining.
  • KINGSTON: Running battles between Jamaican authorities and drug gang members turned part of Kingston into a warzone on Monday, with death toll rising to at least three as gunmen fired on security forces hunting an alleged drug kingpin. The Times of India
  • They fear the death toll will soar if the huge slick is swept ashore during the upcoming hurricane season. The Sun
  • But without the scientists' warnings, the death toll could have been in the hundreds of thousands.
  • The death toll continues to mount.
  • The civilian death toll jumped and support ebbed away. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll was initially reported at around 250, but was later revised to 300.
  • There were suggestions that the death toll was up to five times higher than officially stated.
  • The health ministry has warned that the death toll may rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The death toll does not tell the devastation the flood has caused.
  • There are fears the death toll could rise as emergency services struggled to reach those trapped. The Sun
  • As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
  • Others said the death toll was much higher. Times, Sunday Times
  • The health ministry has warned that the death toll may rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are fears that the death toll will rise as the weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
  • The organization said Wednesday the rebels lost four cadres, including two women, in the attack on the tanker, bringing the total death toll to seven.
  • The day after the explosion the death toll had risen to 90.
  • The death toll from a tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands is expected to grow.

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