Sentences with phrase «death toll on»

This happens occasionally when people complain (as they rightly did) about the death toll on birds by the turbines being used at the time.

There, too, the authorities decided to take drastic action to reduce the death toll on the roads.

Trump touted the response to Hurricane Maria as he attended the briefing on relief efforts, noting that the territory's officials «can be proud» of the relatively low death toll on the island compared to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Unfortunately, as this year so far has had the highest migrant death toll on the Mediterranean, these 25 deaths aren't surprising.

Not exact matches

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

The death toll of a twin suicide bombing in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Sunday rose to 70, with more than 100 wounded, police, medics and morgue sources said.

For instance, the death toll was enormous: In 1893, 1,567 trainmen died and 18,877 were injured on the rails.

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 160 and could climb higher, police said on Thursday, with people trapped under the rubble of a complex that housed garment factories supplying retailers in Europe and North America.

The death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria has more than doubled to 34, a spokesman for Governor Ricardo Rosello said on Tuesday.

On Monday, Velázquez praised Rosselló's decision to review the death toll, but said she still thinks an independent review is necessary.

Ricardo Rosselló announced the review on Monday in light of growing evidence that the official figure of 64 deaths is a gross misrepresentation of the actual death toll.

On December 13, Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D - NY) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D - MS) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office citing analyses by Vox, The New York Times, and other media outlets that found the actual death toll may be at least 1,000.

However, NOAA climatologist Adam Smith said the death toll could increase based on information that continues to come in from Puerto Rico.

Now that we're learning more about the widespread coordinated attacks on Christians and other targets (the death toll is at least 162 in this Associated Press report), I sure hope to see more in - depth coverage of what's happening there.

At least 92 of those deaths occurred in just one 13 - hour period on Monday, it said, adding that the toll was far from comprehensive, documented in the midst of chaos and destruction.

People - pleasing is certain death — whether it is because we actually DO please them and drop dead from total exhaustion, or we can't and get filled with resentment and hate and it takes a toll on our hearts.

She puts the death toll nearer to 60, with potentially many more on the way.

Consider the long and frequently bloody history of troubles between Catholics and Protestants or the growing death toll of Muslim - on - Muslim attacks.

The judges didn't go that far, ordering an additional $ 4,500 for the widows and children of the 39 Christians on the government's official death toll.

With the news that the death toll in Haiti has topped 200,000, the U.N. has asked former U.S. President Bill Clinton to oversee aid and reconstruction on the island nation...

The stress of his wife's death and disappointment over her will took a toll on Johnny, who began to suffer an irregular heartbeat; a pacemaker had to be installed later that year.

Last year, 27 young people were killed in London in suspected gang - related deaths and the death toll is on course to exceed that this year.

«We are currently considering a range of options to further cut the toll of deaths on the roads, including looking at drink - driving.

Asked about figures suggesting a higher toll, he said it could be people killed on the ground but said he had no indication about any such deaths.

The death toll in the last weekend armed bandits» attack on Gwaska Community in Birnin - Gwari Local Government of Kaduna State has increased to 58, as more bodies were recovered from the town and surrounding environs.

After all, they had ordered and presided over the direct and indirect killing of tens or hundreds of thousands - in attacks on civilian and half - civlian targets, in «collateral damage», through the debilitating sanctions in 1990s that resulted in a huge death toll, indirectly through stoking inter-ethnic and inter-religious strife and so on.

A tragic military error with a hideous civilian death - toll, a disastrously corrupt election, and the resignation of a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the MoD, the auguries for Gordon Brown's speech on Friday could barely have been worse.

«Haiti's population is about half that of New York City's metro area, yet even a glancing blow from Sandy carried a higher death toll in the Caribbean nation than did the direct hit on the Big Apple,» Kenny wrote.

The Erie County Legislature approved a $ 1.67 billion budget for next year that slightly reduces the property tax rate for the second year in a row and focuses more attention on the heroin and opioid epidemic that is contributing to the rising drug death toll in Erie County.

The death toll occasioned by the attack on Damaturu, the Yobe State capital by Boko Haram insurgents on Monday has been put at over 220 by...

(CNN)- Bob Costantini and Candy Crowley discuss guests on State of the Union and the issues of Charles Rangel's ethics charges, plus the growing U.S. death toll in Afghanistan.

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has revealed that death toll in last Friday night's attack on Tarfi village, Binnev Ward in Buruku Local Government area of...

Maria's death toll across the Caribbean has climbed to at least 19, nearly all of them on the hard - hit island of Dominica

Burma original claimed that about 30,000 people had been killed by the cyclone, but speaking on The Politics Show Mr Miliband said he will be amazed if the death toll is less than 100,000.

Hospitals throughout the cash - strapped island of 3.4 million people have been running low on medicine and fuel, and residents and local elected officials have said they expect the death toll to rise.

Death toll from the Bomb blast that occurred on Monday at the Dukku...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is bringing in a team of federal experts to help battle Legionnaires» disease — as the city's death toll from the outbreak reached 10 on Thursday.

In defending his decision to let J'Ouvert proceed next year despite the annual death toll, Mayor de Blasio accidentally put his finger on the core problem.

«We had tolls on the East River bridges until 1911, when Mayor William Gaynor removed the tolls, and as a result, it almost sounded the death knell for the East River bridges,» he said.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the death toll caused by Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean territory of St. Maarten has risen to four.

AS THE death toll from last Wednesday's earthquake in Italy continues to rise, seismologists there are working on a forecasting system to try to better predict when the next big one may hit — and its likely impact.

Nearly 1000 people have been killed by hurricane Matthew in Haiti, but the death toll will rise as the knock - on effects of the devastation take hold

Studies probe US traffic injuries, deaths focus on factors that reduce, exacerbate toll.

And they would love for people in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia to have access to experimental therapies as well, as the death toll from the largest Ebola outbreak on record climbs past 600.

Early surveys by the World Health Organization (WHO) found a two - month death rate of 10,000 a month, and later estimates simply extended the death toll based on that rate, up to 180,000 after 18 months.

Standing in a payphone in the village of San Pedro, Chile, about 100 km from the base of Volcano Lascar, volcano researcher Tamsin Mather and colleagues are trying desperately to get through to the manufacturer of their remote sensing device in the U.S. Equipment failure is the bane of any scientist's life, but when it happens in remote terrain, a hitch like this can toll the death knell for further data collection on a precious field trip.

The Philippines started to clear roads blocked by debris on Thursday as it reckoned up the cost of this week's powerful earthquake, with the death toll rising to at least 158.

LONDON / PARIS (Reuters)- Hurricane - force winds and torrential rain disrupted transport networks and cut power supplies in Britain and France on Tuesday, one of the busiest travel days of the year just before Christmas, pushing the death toll to at least six people.

But more powerful tremors — which could add to the death toll in the days, weeks, or months to come — are possible, the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks (CGR) cautioned in a report produced on Thursday.

«If they have an earthquake on this fault that runs through Port - au - Prince,» the death toll would be tremendous, he said January 6.