Sentences with phrase «kills people every year»

You're in a world of trouble once those genetics kick in; Pit Bulls who killed people this year had to be SHOT off their victims, often MULTIPLE TIMES.

Carbon Monoxide is a tasteless, odourless gas that accidentally kills people every year in Canada.

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Together, these brutal malignancies kill an estimated 250,000 people each year — many of them in the poorest countries on the planet.

He also appeared to hail Elliot Rodger, a 22 - year - old who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 and who justified his attack as «retribution» for the rejections he previously received from women.

The attack, which Tamerlan, 26, is suspected of carrying out along with his 19 - year - old brother Dzhokhar, killed three people and injured about 260 others.

Later that year, Assad's forces killed nearly 1,500 people in a chemical - weapons attack.

Most of these ruminations are just a few pages long — the longest are six pages — and nearly all seem to be brimming with eye - opening factoids: «Between 2003 and 2012, natural disasters killed an average of 106,654 people per year.»

The ethnic Chechen, 19 years old at the time of the bombing, was found guilty this month of killing three people and injuring 264 after he and Tamerlan placed homemade bombs at the marathon's crowded finish line.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

Pollution kills at least 9 million people every year and «threatens the continuing survival of human societies,» according to a new study.

Two years ago the FBI asked Apple for access to the iPhone of Syed Farook, who was responsible for killing 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015.

When Assad used chemical weapons a year later to kill 1,500 people outside Damascus, however, Obama wavered, saying he wanted to get approval from Congress before getting mired in another Middle East war.

In August that year, news broke that listeria originating from a Maple Leaf meat plant in Toronto was sickening and killing people.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

Your chances of surviving cardiac arrest — which can strike in healthy people, and kills more Americans each year than Alzheimer's, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, HIV, car crashes, prostate cancer, and suicides combined — vary immensely based on your zip code.

Harvey has drawn comparisons with Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans 12 years ago, killing 1,800 people and causing an estimated $ 108 billion in damage.

A few hundred thousand people visit the Killing Fields every year; there is another site open to the public in Phnom Penh, a former school where victims of the genocide were tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields.

By some estimates, 13,000 people who would otherwise be killed in car crashes each year, will instead live.

The bombing represents a major escalation in the West's confrontation with Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's superpower ally Russia, but is unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people in the past seven years.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

In 20 years, the next CEO of Apple could decide to cut costs and kill off Apple Music, wiping out tens of millions of people's libraries overnight.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

Though it is preventable and curable, TB still kills 1.5 million people per year — 300,000 more than are lost to AIDS annually — and rates as the world's most deadly infectious disease.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP)-- It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least 8,900 structures and killing 42 people, Sonoma County officials said Saturday.

Half a million people develop drug - resistant TB each year; a UK parliamentary group in 2015 projected it will kill 75 million and cost the world $ 16.7 trillion over the next 35 years.

Philip Morris (pm), the maker of Marlboro cigarettes everywhere except the United States, gets the vast majority of its sales and profits from traditional cigarettes, which kill an estimated 6 million people a year worldwide.

Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old suspect that killed 17 people in a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, Wednesday, was armed with an assault rifle and had a gun obsession.

Culiacán (Mexico)(AFP)- Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.

The annual flu «season» to which we've acclimated seems benign compared to that incident — and yet it infects millions of people each year and kills thousands.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

Journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin said sweetened beverages are linked to diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people a year.

Assaults by firearm kill about 11,000 people in the US each year, which translates to a roughly 1 - in - 370 lifetime chance of death from gun violence.

Earlier this month, a flyover under construction in the eastern city of Kolkata for years collapsed killing 27 people, prompting allegations that shoddy material was used and that the metal parts had corroded during the years of delay.

To completely eradicate the deadly disease — which most recently swept through parts of Africa last year, devastating communities and killing thousands of people — anyone who may have come in contact with an infected person would get vaccinated.

Poor sanitation kills 1.7 people a year worldwide.

Furthermore, Angola's government granted Americans almost no tourist visas for years because of American support for Angolan rebels in a 27 - year civil war that began in 1975 and killed more than half a million people.

Several major U.S. companies have dropped their associations with the National Rifle Association in the last few days, less than two weeks after a 19 year old with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people in a high school in Florida.

During New Year's Eve celebrations, 39 people, including more than two dozen foreigners, were killed in a nightclub.

If you look at a map that shows where there's active malaria transmission, it'd be easy to think that the disease — which despite being treatable kills somewhere between 438,00 and 730,000 people a year, depending on the estimate — is purely a tropical problem.

More than 63,600 Americans were killed by opioid painkillers last year — 11,200 more people than the year before that and the highest number of lives claimed by the crisis so far.

It's been six years since a 7.0 - magnitude earthquake struck Haiti — killing more than 160,000 people and crippling an already vulnerable economy.

The sporting - goods chain sold a gun to Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, though a different gun was used in the shooting.

«That gut - wrenching, heartbreaking statement is a reminder of how we felt in the wake of Sandy Hook on December 14 a year and a half ago when it seemed like we were on the verge of potentially legislation that would stop the madness and end the insanity that has killed too many young people, thousands, tens of thousands since Sandy Hook,» Blumenthal said.

Apple's current CEO denounced a court order requiring the tech giant to help authorities search an iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., last year.

«Tobacco is the least admired because it kills people,» says Summers, «but the sector was up by 29 % year - over-year.»

The man accused of carrying out a three - week bombing spree that killed two people in Texas before blowing himself up as police closed in on him was a 23 - year - old unemployed man from suburban Austin, authorities said.

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

The fires, which took place during a drought year and in the hillsides above the East San Francisco Bay city, killed 25 people and destroyed 2,843 homes and more than 430 apartments.

In early April, a 39 - year old shooter opened fire at the headquarters of Google - owned video service YouTube, wounding several people before killing herself.