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Matthew Marek, country director for the American Red Cross, said he expected a very high death toll.

Writing online in The Lancet, they set out a program to reduce the death toll by two percent a year.

Speaking Thursday, he said Alabama's final death toll may not be known for another day or two.

Yesterday Amnesty International said the death toll had climbed to at least 55; scores more have been injured.

The number of armed conflicts -- and their death toll -- has continued to fall since the end of the Cold War.

And yet the number of casualties in Chile appears to be exponentially smaller, with the official death toll still in the hundreds.

There was no immediate word on the death toll although preliminary reports said at least 10 policemen had died.

In light of many online rumors, Julie Plec revealed that there will be an influential death toll at the end of this season.

Pandemic influenza is usually associated with a greater number of cases, higher severity of illness and consequently a higher death toll.

Certainly, such a death toll would be enough to destroy both countries as superpowers, but not the end of life as we know it.

The death toll might have been worse if the waves had struck in darkness rather than the early morning.

Officials said the gunman was killed, bringing the death toll to at least 12.

Six days after the quake struck and with the death toll now standing at 294, masses were held in makeshift chapels set up in tent cities.

Prime Minister John Key, who rushed to the city from the capital, Wellington, said the death toll was liable to rise.

Up to 6000 survivors have been located but a local newspaper report said that the Beichuan confirmed death toll has risen above 7000.

Haiti's U. N. ambassador said the death toll in the revolt is now about 60, and the country faces "an abyss of civil war. "

There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy in the death toll.

The flawed arithmetic of disaster response tends to equate need for aid with the immediate death toll.

The death toll could rise from disease and hunger if the aid effort is not stepped up, the U. N. warned.

If true, the latest figures would suggest the death toll in Iraq now exceeds that of the Rwandan genocide in which 800, 000 died.

Their only consensus was that the real death toll was exponentially higher than those numbers provided by Bashir.

The new projected death toll announced Thursday is more than triple the figure given just a day earlier.

If it does, under unchanged policies, we will be measuring the costs of adjustment not in euros but through a death toll.

Foreign donors were also slow to respond to the catastrophe, due to its unfolding nature and, perhaps, its relatively low death toll.

The media pretty much only shows us all the terrible things, the bombings and the death toll but not the everyday life of the Iraqi people.

Wu Yong, a local army commander, said the death toll could rise as lots of houses had collapsed.

But as the death toll grows, so do concerns that even the appearance of official tolerance gives these organisations legitimacy.

The death toll from the eruptions has now risen to about 120 and is expected to increase as rescuers pull bodies out of the ash and rubble.

Among the reasons for the high civilian death toll is the difficulty of getting victims to hospital quickly enough for emergency treatment.

The U. S. military put the death toll at 18, including one policeman and 17 civilians, and said a lone woman bomber was responsible.

The death toll had been estimated at 28 railway workers and "scores of unfortunate African natives, " with the total ranging as high as 135.

The death toll from a spate of tornadoes that hit southern states at the end of April rose to at least 340.

And the death toll continues to mount back in the republics themselves, with assassinations and bombings occurring day after day after day.

As the death toll rises, relatives of the victims across the border in Jordan have also started to protest.

They expect the confirmed death toll to exceed 1000 within the next few days.

The officials say the death toll could be considerably higher, as the current count includes only the dead at hospitals and morgues.

Even as the death-toll from the protests approaches 600, demonstrators in a dozen other towns have rallied to break the siege of Deraa.

"The death toll may rise further as lots of houses collapsed, " he said.

In Haiti, a death toll from a school collapse rises to at least 75 people with crews continuing the search for survivors.

Blasts in two other well-known hotels brought the overall death toll to at least 41.

Household energy practices vary widely around the world, as does the resultant death toll due to indoor air pollution.

Cholera is spreading quickly in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, as the death toll rises across the quake-hit country.

The Xinhua news agency Friday reported that executives at the plant eventually admitted to covering up the true death toll.

Exact figures are difficult to obtain due to underreporting, but the death toll is thought to be in the hundreds.

This was a huge reason in the death toll and because of the massive amount of population along the coast of India and Sri Lanka.

Death toll from Caspian Fever has now reached 107. The virus continued to mutate and spread.

State broadcaster CCTV said the death toll had risen to about 300, with an additional 8, 000 people injured.

Indeed, though the weekly death toll goes up and down, the strife is worsening.

The Lebanese death toll has been mounting fast: at least 300 people have been killed, most of them civilians.

The police death toll in a country that sees itself as the most civilised in Africa is indeed shocking.

For days after the accident, the death toll continued to mount.

Officials say that the death toll in Padang will certainly rise, possibly into the thousands, as more bodies are found in the rubble.

Were the attacks to have succeeded the death toll would have been horrendous.

An explosion in a coal mine in southern Russia killed at least 66 people. There were fears the death toll could rise to 90.

There has also been a large unseen death toll, especially among men.

Mr. Seltsovsky said the average daily death toll 'during normal times' is 360 to 380, in a city of about 11 million people.

Catastrophic rains have become more frequent in Brazil (and elsewhere). But much of the blame for the high death toll lies closer to earth.

Police divers were still searching the lake around Utoya Island for bodies, and said there were fears the death toll could rise again.

Streets had reverted to calm and curfews were in force in major districts of Urumqi as the death toll mounted from rioting.

The death toll on the roads at Christmas is usually heavy.

She said recent Myanmar government estimates put the death toll at 70, 000, mainly in the delta area.

More than 34, 000 people die each year from lung cancer in the United Kingdom, the heaviest death toll of any cancer.

no industrialised country since then has suffered such a death toll.

The death toll has risen to at least 450 in the Peru earthquake which devastated cities in the country's southern desert.

But they are right that, in terms of its impact, if not its immediate death toll, it dwarfs the awful Kashmir earthquake of 2005.

Update: The death toll from the weekend is now at least 76.

Police have said the death toll may rise to more than 200, with around 50 people still unaccounted for.

The death toll in the raging Australian bushfires has risen to at least 84, making it the country's worst fire disaster.

He asked Australians to prepare for an even higher death toll, as authorities started sifting through charred townships and farms.

Adding to the 18 deaths in Xinyang, Henan, the death toll from contracting the infection from tick bites has climbed to at least 33.

The reporter said today's death toll might be just the tip of the iceberg.

It was a complicated process to publish the death toll because of the sheer amount of both fatalities and those still missing.

That adds up to an annual death toll of greater than the population of Canada.

Many reports about the A(H1N1) flu pandemic have failed to compare the disease's death toll with others that may have more of an impact.

Many roads are impassable , the only link to the airport is cut, and the death toll continues to rise.

But a chilling truth is that as the U. S. death toll declined, the Iraqi one would almost surely soar.

Infectious diseases were also the main factor behind the war's death toll.

In Gansu province, the death toll was more than 1, 200 after landslides buried buildings and streets in mud.

The death toll in widespread violence, much of it between rival ethnic groups, has exceeded 650.

At least 72 others were injured but officials say the death toll is expected to rise.

The terrorists appear to have chosen their targets precisely. A crowded station, to maximise the death toll.

The death toll may rise further as rescue teams continue to search the waters around the island.

The high death toll was attributed in part to architecture: much of the area is dominated by mud and stone huts that simply collapsed.

But the death toll from religious extremism, which plagues the rest of Pakistan, is far exceeded in Karachi by that from ethnic violence.

The death toll at the Pukkelpop music festival in Belgium, hit by a sudden violent storm, has now risen to five, say local officials.

But, with a vast number of people still unaccounted for three years later, the death toll might even be higher.

The rising death toll has caused unease at home in Britain and has sparked growing criticism of the government's handling of the war.

This brought the death toll in six days of unrest to at least nine.

For months, President Karzai has complained of foreign troops inflicting a heavy death toll on Afghan non-combatants.

The Red Cross has suggested that the death toll may already be 50, 000 people and many suggest that the total could more than double that.

Earlier reports said the death toll in Balad was nearly 100.

The official death toll continued to climb, reaching above 1, 800 by Monday afternoon.

They have warned the death toll may rise further as rescue teams continue to scour the waters around the island.

Without rapid provision of medical aid, food, water and shelter the death toll is likely to rise quickly.

It is too early to stipulate the cause of the explosion, official death toll as well as who was behind it.

Workers are fighting to prevent a nuclear meltdown, the death toll is rising, and energy and food shortages are rippling across the nation.

A rise in the death toll of the Atlanta bus crash, claiming members of a college baseball team.

An attack on Monday killed 125 people, most of them Iraqi police recruits, the largest single death toll since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Doctors at hospitals in Benghazi, where the worst of the violence took place, put the death toll at more than 200 people.

Chernobyl's death toll is highly uncertain, but may have reached a few thousand people.

The true death toll, including mining-related illnesses, is believed to be much higher.

They denied there had been any rapes or that the death toll had been underplayed .

Experts have estimated that the death toll will likely reach into the thousands, with untold numbers homeless.

Domestic media said the death toll was expected to exceed 1, 000 people.

Plenty of doveish moderates were aghast at the death toll and prepared for severe strictures from the rest of the world.

The death toll is likely to go up because several people have sustained critical injuries.

At least 195 people died in the attacks. And it's feared the death toll could rise as Indian authorities comb the sites.

Although one in three who come in contact will likely become infected, the Imperial College London team declined to estimate the death toll.

The death toll from ethnic rioting in western China grows to 184 people, with a mix of dominant ethnic Han Chinese group and Uigurs.

German health officials reported that three more people died on Thursday, raising the death toll to 29 in less than six weeks.

German health officials reported that three more people died on Thursday, raising the death toll to 29 in less than six weeks.

The recorded death toll at Towton may well have been inflated to burnish the legend of Edward's ascent to the crown.

The death toll from a dam that broke near the Indonesian capital and flooded a suburb continues to rise.

The death toll stands at 128, state media reported, but senior officials warned that the number of victims probably is much higher.

Initial reports from Ofunato on Friday suggested that hundreds of homes had been swept away; the death toll was not yet known.

When word of the soaring death toll reached the capital, Beijing began an investigation.

Dozens of people were killed and with scores seriously injured the death toll is expected to rise.

Authorities in Florida are not ruling out the possibility that the death toll from Friday's storms may rise.

Tibetan activist groups say the death toll in ensuing clashes between protesters and security forces was considerably higher.

Official reports put the death toll at 240, 000, though many believe that the actual number of casualties was three times as high.

Also on Monday, authorities raised the death toll from a bridge collapse in Henan province to 51 and said 15 people remained missing.

Israeli military officials initially reported a higher death toll. Israel says that seven soldiers were also wounded in the violence.

If the death toll suddenly rises into the thousands, can the rest of the world stand idly by?

Reported that the accident was caused due to fog on the highway, the death toll may increase further.

Due to local conditions are very poor, rescue the injured and bodies of work is very difficult to clean up the death toll could rise.

Children in the fire death toll may be really great, but children are not necessarily caused by the fire.

The death toll between two democracies dwarfs the number killed attempting to cross the inner German border during the cold war.

They warned that the death toll was likely to go up, as many people were in critical condition.

The death toll in Iraq would be much higher but for breakthroughs in field medicine.

The exact death toll is unknown, but some estimates suggest that up to 2, 000 people lost their lives.

BEIJING, Oct. 29 Xinhua According to foreign reports, Indonesian officials said the quake triggered a tsunami death toll rose to 29, 408.

While Chile's death toll is expected to rise, earthquake experts said it remains relatively low considering the quake's size.

Every aspect of a rail incident is explored in minuscule detail , while the daily death toll on the roads receives barely a whisper .

Divers find two more bodies where a highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, bringing the death toll to seven with six still missing.

Gaza City is surrounded by the noxious smoke from phosphorous bombs on Monday afternoon with the death toll hovering at 900 Palestinians.

And the death toll could rise as rescuers search for victims among the rubble.

the death toll could have been much higher. David Lite, ABC news, Los Angeles.

Officials say the death toll was likely declined as soldiers and rescue teams reach the areas closer to the quake's epicenter.

New Delhi Health Minister Valia respect, some of the wounded serious injury, the death toll may rise further.

Haiti said the death toll now exceeded 200, 000, the first estimate.

The day's death toll was by no means the worst Pakistan has seen in recent years.

The police said Saturday evening that they expected the death toll to climb.

That would bring the South Korean death toll to four, including two South Korean marines killed Tuesday.

China says two more children have died of a severe intestinal virus, raising the nation's death toll to 30.

Calculating communism's death toll is a difficult task, but one taken on by The Black Book of Communism.

Well, three more children have died from that day care center fire in Hermosillo, Mexico, and that brings the death toll now to 38.

Michael Dillon, a pet industry consultant, conservatively estimates a final death toll in the thousands.

Officials say they expect the death toll to rise as the grim search for bodies in debris continues.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch has put the death toll in Libya at nearly 300, according to a partial count from several days ago.

The death toll from the stampede, at the end of Cambodia's annual water festival, rose to 378 on Tuesday, with hundreds more injured.

The Iraqi civilian death toll, far more numerous but also harder to count, appears to have climbed as well.

The death toll could rise considerably as more information comes in from the area hit by the earthquake.

Xinhua said Tuesday that the death toll had risen to 53. It said more than 70 others had been rushed to hospitals.

Officials said Wednesday the death toll from the February 27 quake is likely to increase as crews recover bodies under piles of rubble.

So there is a strong belief that in places of poverty the death toll was far higher.

They fear the death toll could soar if the outbreak reaches camps housing the survivors of January's earthquake.

The heavy rains also killed 13 people in Sao Paulo state Tuesday, which brought death toll in Brazil's south to at least 270.

The death toll rose to 58 on Monday, the Associated Press reported, and was expected to climb.

Tibetan exiles and human rights groups say the death toll during the protests was much larger.

The official death toll stands at 181, but is expected to rise steeply as the operation to recover bodies continues.

Beijing on Tuesday ordered a two-month review of safety measures on all of its railways, as the death toll reached 39.

The sudden flooding in Indonesia's Teluk Wondama district caught residents by surprise, officials said, contributing to the high death toll.

According to tallies by medical officials in Gaza the Palestinian death toll from Israeli military operations is now around 500.

The disaster has so far seen a death toll of almost 300 people, and the number continues to climb.

Officials in Saudi Arabia say the death toll from Thursday's stampede during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca has risen to 362.

A soldier and a marine were killed yesterday, bringing the death toll to 80 this month.

How awful. I can only hope that the death toll doesn't rise much higher.

Several believe that the drugs have slowed the steady death toll already.

The gunman took his life at the end of the shooting rampage with a death toll of 33.

For years, the death toll has been mounting among (Somalia) and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers boats.

For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers' boats .

The official death toll had stood at 37 since Sunday but many angry Beijing residents said it was underestimated.

Hospitals struggle to deal with the wounded as ambulances brought in more and more casualties as the day went on, so the death toll mounted.

Chinese state media say the death toll from Tuesday's explosions at a chemical plant in southern China has risen to 20 people.

With that change factored in, the state's death toll stood at 246 early Saturday.

It put the death toll at 1, 072 for the year, excluding those who have died in the landslides over the weekend.

The British death toll is now 230.

Indonesia's human death toll from bird flu has reached 61, the highest of any country.

Rescue workers are sifting through the wreckage in search of 18 missing people and have said that the death toll is likely to rise.

But as the death toll remained relatively low, so the criticism mounted.

But the final death toll is likely to be much higher.

With many rescue workers still en route, it was unclear where the death toll stood or how many victims could be saved.

Her aim: to teach people about preventing disease and to challenge us to do more to stop the death toll.

The death toll from clashes in Tunisia in the past few days has reached 21, a government minister said on Tuesday.

The death toll in Libya has proved particularly difficult to determine.

Figueredo possesses a spinechilling personal archive of photographs that document the rising death toll.

The death toll rose to 40 Friday after one of the 190 injured died, state broadcaster CCTV said.

International organizations estimate the death toll to be closer to 100, 000, with millions in need of help.

The first night after I found out about Tom's death I watched a news report about the fighting in Vietnam and the rising death toll.

The death toll from the violence was thought to run into dozens.

The death toll from cyclone Nargis, that hit the country more than two weeks ago, has soared in recent days.

Another Red Crescent official, Heidar Heidari, told the state news agency IRNA, that the "death toll is expected to increase. "

The death toll from a massive rockslide Saturday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo has climbed to 31, a medical source said on Sunday.

The images raised fears that the death toll could mount, especially with the impact on remote coastal communities not yet fully assessed.

Those figures are disputed by some Japanese historians, who say the death toll was lower.

Officials expected the death toll from the tsunami to climb as damage reports emerged.

Death toll in the massive landslide in Gansu province is expected to rise rapidly.

The death-toll, then, will rise sharply as the disease spreads.

The death toll in Monday's disaster rose Friday to 178, with possibly more people buried in the sea of mud, which covered 74 acres.

The official death toll by Sunday afternoon had reached 800, although many thousands more were unaccounted for.

The death toll from rainstorms and landslides in Messina, Italy, rose to 20 Saturday and 35 people were still missing, Reuters reported.

AS DARKNESS fell over Damascus on Friday night, the death toll was still soaring.

There were fears the death toll could rise sharply with estimates of the number of missing varying from 54 to 67.

Gaza officials put the Palestinian death toll from the week-long Israeli operations at around 500.

Over 100 people were killed with the death toll likely to rise as a 6. 3-magnitude quake hit central Italy early Monday, AP reported.

Saturday's decision came in reaction to the rising death toll in Syria.

The death toll in China from an outbreak of a severe intestinal virus that has sickened thousands of children now stands at 34.

Taiwanese authorities put the confirmed death toll in Taiwan at 23, but that seemed certain to rise.

The death toll from a flood that destroyed a village in southern Kazakhstan has risen to 35, the country's president said Saturday.

The death toll from the landslide that occurred Wednesday in Zizhou, Shaanxi has reached 27. Rescue work ended Friday.

The death toll from a tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands is expected to grow.

The number of dead reported has exceeded 200 and the death toll is expected to continue to rise.

Death toll up to 617 in Qinghai quake.

The death toll from an earthquake in Indonesia has reached 57 with scores injured and missing. Casualty figures could increase.

China is holding a day of mourning for those killed in floods and mudslides, as the death toll rose to 1, 239 people.

With 11 civilians and five police killed, along with 11 insurgents, the death toll could have been much worse.

Chinese state-run media says another child has died from an intestinal virus outbreak in eastern China, bringing the death toll to 21.

Poorly run coal mines are being forced to close, reducing the mining death toll.

It was the highest quake-related death toll in Spain in more than 50 years.

The death toll from a fireworks factory explosion Monday in Heilongjiang has climbed to 13, with 148 others injured, local authorities said.

In Chinese traffic accident, the death toll of frontal crash occupies the first place.

The initial death toll was reported as 11, but by the following Saturday, CNN had reported it as 36, with an additional 71 injured.

According to preliminary estimation, the death toll is expected to go beyond 80000 with direct economic loss exceeding RMB1000billion.

The Iraqi government disputed figures in a UN report issued in January, which put the civilian death toll in 2006 at 34, 452 civilians.

But when the researchers injected a group with the same dose of cocaine plus capsaicin, the death toll was about half.

Two of the 76 passengers injured in Friday's bus blaze in southwest China died in hospital early Sunday, bringing the death toll to 27.

But several families are convinced their children died because of tainted formula but have not been counted in the death toll.

The final death toll of the March 11 quake is far from known.

The death toll from a powerful spring storm has grown to 15 now. More rain and snow is expected in the northeast today.

25 noon local time, the police announced the death toll rose to 113, and another 70 people were rescued.

Indonesia's health ministry says another Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the country's death toll from the virus to 93.

The death toll rises, but some hope is realized in the reunions of family and friends.

But Deputy Prime Minister Sok An said later that the death toll rose to 347 and the number of injured climbed to 394.

On Sunday, Oxfam warned that the death toll in Burma could reach 1. 5 million without massive humanitarian intervention.

An earthquake will hit a highly populated city causing high death toll.

In recent days dozens of corpses have been found in the streets, raising the death toll to 400.

The fires are so large they can be seen from space. The death toll has risen as investigators combed through scorched areas.

The death toll is not quite as large these days, but the ruthless use of surplus labour is not too different.

He and other officials expected the death toll to rise as rescuers search for missing people or bodies.

Cholera's effects go beyond the death toll. They are compounding Haiti's other woes.

On taking office he called the Kunduz airstrike militarily "appropriate" despite its horrific death toll.

the death toll of various cancers has a reverse relation with air pressure.

Hospital officials say the death toll from Indonesia's volcano eruption has reached 40, AP reports.

The morning after the standoff ended at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, the official death toll remained 172.

It looks at similar devastation from the past. The death toll makes it Australia's worst natural disaster.

THE death toll of civilians and American soldiers in Iraq has been falling steadily.

But the death toll over the past two months appears to reinforce his optimism.

But the Qatar television station reported that the death toll due Tripoli only 800 people.

The crash brought the known death toll in the last two weeks to about 50.

Aftershocks continue to add to the death toll, and the government has allocated billions of dollars to the rescue and recovery effort.