death toll
Example Sentences
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The death toll rose to three Monday in the collapse of a building under construction near the Philippine capital, with 17 people still believed missing, authorities said.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
The official death toll in Gaza has been put at more than 72,000, but that too is viewed as an undercount.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Other agencies place the death toll in the tens of thousands.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
The official death toll from the incident is 31 people - two were killed by the explosion itself, while 28 died from Acute Radiation Sickness, and one from cardiac arrest, in the weeks afterwards.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
But since the need was so urgent and the death toll so high, the West swallowed its disgust and delivered more than one billion dollars' worth of food to North Korea between 1995 and 2003.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
