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Of the fatalities, 53 have resulted from falls ; 65 deaths were attributable to environmental causes, including heat stroke, cardiac arrest, dehydration, and hypothermia ; 7 were caught in flash floods ; 79 were drowned in the Colorado River ; 242 perished in airplane and helicopter crashes ( 128 of them in the 1956 disaster mentioned below ); 25 died in freak errors and accidents, including lightning strikes and rock falls ; 48 committed suicide ; and 23 were the victims of homicides.
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Of the 53 confirmed fatalities in Biloxi, a figure that includes one unidentified male, Hargrove said the average age was 58, with the youngest being 22 and the oldest 90 ; 14 were female and 39 were male.
As of May 2008, the mountain has been climbed 297 times with 53 fatalities.
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Over the past 25 years there have been 24 crocodile attacks with 4 fatalities, including the death of American tourist Lauren Failla.
The Boxing Day sales have the potential for customer stampedes, injuries and even fatalities.
Although road fatalities have been decreasing due in part to stricter enforcement of drink driving laws, 2004 still saw 7, 358 deaths on Japanese roads.
Modern techniques for timbering and bracing walls and ceilings within sub-surface mines have reduced the number of fatalities due to cave-ins, but ground falls continue to represent up to 50 % of mining fatalities.
The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 39, but other estimates of black fatalities have been up to about 300.
There have been numerous fatalities around the world where people are overcome by toxic gas from sewers.
* July 16 – An outbreak of E. coli food poisoning in Japan reaches 6, 000 fatalities, after a group of school children who have eaten contaminated lunches die.
The radiation released would have caused fatalities out to 600 feet and injuries out to 2000 feet.
As vehicles more than doubled in recent years, traffic fatalities have increased especially in a country with no previous driving tradition like in Albania.
In cases where pharmacists have misinterpreted DTO to mean " deodorized tincture of opium " when " diluted tincture of opium " was meant, infants have received a massive 25-fold overdose of morphine, sometimes resulting in fatalities.
However, some researchers have hypothesized that the reason the proportion of fatalities is low is not because sharks do not like human flesh, but because humans are often able to escape after the first bite.
Since the launch of Kinder surprise in 1974 there have been 2 publicly recorded choking fatalities, in 1985 and in 1989, associated with parts of a toy from the product.
As with any sport, injuries can still occur ( see below ), and there have been fatalities.
Skin rashes are the most common, but there have been fatalities.
By the time the coconut naturally falls, the husk has become brown, the coir has become drier and softer, and the coconut is less likely to cause damage when it drops, although there have been instances of coconuts falling from palms and injuring people, and claims of some fatalities.
According to the analysis used, seatbelts were claimed to have decreased fatalities by 1. 35 % for each 10 % increase in seatbelt use.
Some studies that have been performed on the number of human deaths caused by dog bite trauma have surveyed news media stories for reports of dog bite-related fatalities.
Excluding famines and epidemics, some of the worst natural disasters in history ( measured by fatalities ) have been river floods, particularly in the Yellow River in China – see list of deadliest floods.
During the Shinkansen's 45-year, nearly 7 billion-passenger history, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions, despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons.
Other fatalities without remission have been described by, amongst others, Morvan himself.
Fentanyl and derivatives have been used as recreational drugs ; as such they have caused fatalities.
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It is estimated that more than two million people in the Gulf region were displaced by the hurricane, and that more than 1, 500 fatalities resulted in Louisiana alone.
In all, Hurricane Georges caused 5 fatalities, left 3, 000 homeless, and resulted in $ 445 million ( 1998 USD ) in damage on the island.
resulted in human fatalities, those deaths were associated with generation of highly toxic hydrofluoric acid and uranyl fluoride rather than with uranium itself.
Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it resulted in 50 million to over 70 million fatalities.
In 1998 and 1999, they resulted in fatalities on both sides and nearly escalated into a military conflict between these countries.
Nathaniel " Nat " Turner ( October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831 ) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States.
While the 1811 German Coast Uprising in Louisiana involved a greater number of slaves, it resulted in only two white fatalities.
The Piccadilly line bomb resulted in the largest number of fatalities, with 26 people reported killed.
It was the largest slave uprising in US history, but resulted in few fatalities among whites.
On February 16, 2001, straightline winds measured at 74 miles per hour destroyed many homes and trees but fortunately resulted in no fatalities.
Rail service is provided into Hackettstown via NJ Transit over Norfolk Southern's Washington Secondary line which, in the Rockport section of Mansfield Township, passes the location of the Rockport Wreck, a 1925 train accident that resulted in 50 fatalities.
The 1999 storm resulted in eleven fatalities, while the 2003 storm resulted in eight fatalities.
He claims that some traffic calming measures such as reverting one way roads into two-way roads or creating " bump outs " have increased motor traffic congestion, resulted in more accidents and increased pedestrian fatalities.
Widow spiders have more potent venom than most spiders, and prior to the development of antivenom, 5 % of reported bites resulted in fatalities.
For example, von Oettingen recorded 47 fatal and 174 nonfatal cases of methyl bromide intoxication between 1899 and 1952 ... Severe poisoning with some fatalities resulted from soil disinfection by injection of methyl bromide into greenhouse soil.
In 1994, Michigan reported 56, 666 deer collisions, of which five resulted in human fatalities, according to Mark Matthew Braunstein of the Santa Cruz Hub.
A number of incidents involving camping and fire have resulted in fatalities and severe injuries.
Hurricane Hugo caused 34 fatalities ( most by electrocution or drowning ) in the Caribbean and 27 in South Carolina, left nearly 100, 000 homeless, and resulted in $ 10 billion ( 1989 USD ) in damage overall, making it the most damaging hurricane ever recorded at the time.
This resulted in more than 100 fatalities over the course of the decade.
While the number of injuries and whether any fatalities resulted have been long disputed, the incident led to a shakeup of the Franco cabinet and the conviction of six Falangists.
The march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army, and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime.
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