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  2. List of fatal crowd crushes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable crowd collapses, crushes, and stampedes.Many such accidents are also in the list of accidents and disasters by death toll.The deadliest modern crowd crush incidents have both occurred during the Hajj pilgrimage, with the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy claiming 1,426 lives and the 2015 Mina stampede claiming 2,400.

  3. 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash - Wikipedia

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    At 11:24 a.m., less than two hours after the crash, TMZ was the first news source to confirm Bryant's death. [41] [42] TMZ was later criticized by local law enforcement for reporting the story before the coroner 's office had the opportunity to confirm the identities of the helicopter's occupants and inform their families.

  4. Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting - Wikipedia

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    Wrongful death lawsuit against Remington Arms settled for $73 million [12] The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people.

  5. Nanjing Massacre - Wikipedia

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    The death toll of civilians is difficult to precisely calculate due to the many bodies deliberately burnt, buried in mass graves, or dumped into the Yangtze River. [66] [67] Robert O. Wilson , a physician, testified that cases of gun wounds "continued to come in [to the hospital of University of Nanjing ] for a matter of some six or seven weeks ...

  6. Costa Concordia disaster - Wikipedia

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    The parbuckling was a major media operation, and the righting was well-documented in video and photographs. News Agencies Getty Images and AP had an extensive coverage, from the day of the disaster to the removal of the wreck with the photographers Laura Lezza, Marco Secchi and Andrew Medichini documenting and capturing all phases.

  7. AP PHOTOS: The death toll soars on war's 11th day ...

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    With airstrikes intensifying and diplomats struggling for answers, the war between Israel and Hamas raged on for an 11th day, with no refuge available from pain and grief. Hamas officials said an ...

  8. Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy - Wikipedia

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    Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy. The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at the age of 18 in a high speed car crash in Lake Forest, California, after losing control of her father's Porsche 911 Carrera and colliding with a toll ...

  9. Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Differing direct, short-term death toll counts. Initially, the Soviet Union's toll of deaths directly caused by the Chernobyl disaster included only the two Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the plant's reactor. However, by late 1986, Soviet officials updated the official count to 30 ...