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The 2008 Mumbai attacks [14] (also referred to as 26/11 attacks) [15] [a] were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organisation, carried out 12 shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
25 million [10] [11] 1618–1683 Manchu vs. Ming Dynasty: China World War I: 15–22 million [12] [13] 1914–1918 Allied Powers vs. Central Powers: Global Conquests of Timur: 7–20 million [6] 1369–1405 Timurid Empire vs. various states in Asia Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia An Lushan rebellion: 13 million [14] 754–763
26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The official report is 31 immediate deaths, 64 recorded cancer deaths by 2008, and potentially up to, but no more than, 4,000 total cancer deaths. [32] Far-higher death toll estimates have been made, but these are disputed. Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union: 17 August 2000 – March 2001
The following is a list of wars caught by number of U.S. battle deaths suffered by military forces; deaths from disease and other non-battle causes are not included. Although the Confederate States of America did not consider itself part of the United States, and its forces were not part of the U.S. Army, its battle deaths are included with the ...
The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and ...
The number of Helene-related deaths in Buncombe County, verified by the medical examiner's office, sits at 42. According to Haight, all decedents found in Buncombe County are included in the ...
Police in have revealed tragic new details behind the mysterious death of a 26-year-old Polish newlywed two years after she was found on the streets of Miami.
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.