People Killed

Some articles on killed, people killed, people:

Courrières Mine Disaster
... disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on April 26, 1942, which killed 1,549 miners ... founded in 1852) between the villages of Méricourt (404 people killed), Sallaumines (304 killed), Billy-Montigny (114 people killed), and Noyelles-sous-Lens (102 people killed) about 2 km (1 mi ...
Civilian Casualties In The War In Afghanistan (2001–present) - Afghan Protestation of Civilian Deaths Caused By International Forces - Afghan Public Protests Over Civilian Deaths
... forces which killed scores of civilians, including many children and 25 members of one family ... According to Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah, 44 people were killed and 120 wounded in the U.S ... Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said five people were killed in the vehicle crash ...
Hull River Aboriginal Settlement - Cyclone
... tidal wave which swept away the bark and grass huts, and several people were also swept away and drowned ... Superintendent Kenny and his daughter died, killed by flying debris, as did a number of Aboriginal people ... Records show that 37 people were killed in Innisfail itself and a further 40-60 people killed in the surrounding area ...
List Of Floods - Asia - Europe - United Kingdom
... Affected Sheffield in 1864, 270 dead Lynmouth flood of 1952 — 34 people were killed, with a further 420 made homeless ... Canvey Island floods of 1953 - 58 people were killed and many properties damaged, with 13,000 islanders evacuated. 2002 Glasgow floods — 200 people immediately evacuated, but the water supply of 140 thousand people was affected ...
List Of Rail Accidents (1950–1959) - 1950s - 1953
... Amazingly, nobody was killed by the accident ... April 8, 1953 – Stratford tube crash 12 people were killed as a result of a rear-end collision in a tunnel ... Col des Nuages derailment "About 100 or more" people are killed when a passenger train plunges 50 feet through a sabotaged viaduct in French Indochina (now ...

Famous quotes containing the words killed and/or people:

    “In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
    —Gloria Steinem (20th century)

    “When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)