Sentences with phrase «number of casualties of»

General Irabor explained further that, contrary to the figure flying around on the number of casualty of the Airstrike in Rann in Kalabalge local government area of Borno state, the total casualty figure recorded by the Theatre Command stood at 112 dead, while 97 were injured and are receiving treatment in various hospitals within the state.

Not exact matches

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

In 2007, the military called upon me because the number of casualties was increasing in Afghanistan.

«The number of casualties is much higher than we expected, and is truly shocking.»

The amount of damage and the number of casualties were not known early on Wednesday.

For comparison, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Texas state and county officials provided reporters with an updated number of casualties directly related to the storm daily.

Some of these launching pits are located in areas near hospitals and schools in the heart of populated areas and institutions attended by a large number of people, making them difficult to attack because of the risk of civilian casualties.

With Congress failing to pass more than 100 gun control bills as the number of casualties from mass shootings piles up, it's easy for gun control advocates to think nothing will be accomplished.

Investigators believe the suspect pulled the fire alarm to draw people out of classrooms and increase the number of casualties, a law enforcement source told CNN.

It's estimated that by 2050, the number of people over the age of 65 with Alzheimers will triple, making the disease's casualties a great concern for the future.

Doctors in Syria's rebel - controlled suburbs of Damascus have said they can not keep up with the number of casualties, amid shelling by government forces.

According to Airwars — a non-profit that attempts to keep track of the number of civilian deaths caused by coalition airstrikes in the Middle East — there has been a spike in casualties under President Trump.

Probably, but just ask General Westmoreland about civilian (and US troop) casualties in Vietnam and you'll get a number about 20 % of the real thing... as usual.

The naming and subsequent pruning of provisional World Cup squads in recent days has yielded a number of high - profile casualties, among them Ronaldinho, Francesco Totti, Antonio Cassano, Esteban Cambiasso, Javier Zanetti and Karim Benzema, and the tournament will undoubtedly be poorer for their absences.

The Spanish giants have a number of casualties going into the game with Gerard Pique, Andres Iniesta, Jordi Alba and Aleix Vidal all ruled out with injuries for the tie.

As horrific as the statistics sound, there is a personal story behind each incident, a real life reminder that the casualties of faulty children's products can not be reduced to numbers.

«There is no frontline fighting or shelling any longer; and the number of civilian casualties has gone down.

UN estimates put the number of casualties since March at 2,000 and warned the situation remains «extremely volatile and complex».

The number of drink driving casualties decreased slightly, as did the number of drink driving crashes.

With war comes a significant number of casualties.

As such, we have incurred a number of casualties, and with a major deployment planned for 2012, we are conscious of the fact that we may again take casualties, some of which may require caring for long into the future.

The total number of casualties increased, and it's plausible this was caused by the increased speed limit.

• The total number of drink - drive accidents rose by 2 % to 5,740 in 2015 • There was a 3 % rise in overall drink - drive casualties on 2014 to 8,480 • Around 220 people were killed in drink driving related incidents, a figure unchanged since 2010, around 13 % of all deaths in reported road accidents in 2015.

Casualties include hundreds of websites hacked down in the prime of life, plus the dignity of a number of religious leaders — far less destructive than some other uses of the «net in sectarian war in Iraq in darker days past.

Other casualties of the final deal included the Senate's earlier proposal to increase the number of eligible condo projects.

«But on the actual number of casualties, we would get back to you later.

It's been over twelve hours after explosions and fire hit two fuel stations at Atomic Junction in Accra and officials of government, Ghana National Fire Service and the Police have remained tight - lipped on the number of people injured, casualties and level of destruction.

As the casualties piled up on Friday morning, Tory MP Anna Soubry broke ranks to express her frustration at losing a number of colleagues.

Images posted on social media showed a badly - mangled carriage, with a number of casualties nearby.

Meanwhile, the Rivers State Police Command said it was yet to ascertain the number of casualties, Spokesman of the Command, Nnamdi Omoni said the police were on top of the situation.

But last year, the renewal of NY / NY became the casualty of yet another squabble between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio — with Mr. de Blasio asking Mr. Cuomo to increase the number of units to be built in the city, and with Mr. Cuomo demanding that Mr. de Blasio pick up more of the tab — calling for a 50/50 split of the cost instead of the state paying 80 percent, as it has done in the past.

Though the Nigerian Airforce in a statement declined to give the number of casualty,...

«As for the morality of that decision we have recently had both the memorial of the Halabja massacre where thousands of people were murdered in one day by Saddam's use of chemical weapons; and that of the Iran - Iraq war where casualties numbered up to a million including many killed by chemical weapons.

Following the Reigners Church building collapse in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Saturday, the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, has released the official number of casualties.

As at the time of filing this report the Nigeria Politics Online could not ascertain the number of casualties as the explosions happened when it was dark.

The number of casualties is not yet clear.

There will soon be vast numbers of casualties staring shell - shocked and limbless into the lens of the Sky News camera, all of them looking for Clegg's phone number.

Levin added that the number of American and Afghan casualties has increased because «we're taking the fight to the Taliban right in the heart of the Taliban heartland.»

«The number of casualty and equipment lost as being circulated is not correct.

Cowal said the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party (known by its Spanish acronym PRI) in Mexico at the time had shown itself unable to deal with the catastrophe, but it also exposed corruption in municipal building codes that allowed the construction of poorly built buildings which contributed to the high numbers of casualties and property damage.

«We have an excellent team onboard and we hope the results will help us understand what controls the size of the very largest earthquakes on Earth, particularly following the enormous numbers of casualties due to subduction earthquakes and tsunamis in the last 10 - 15 years.

Another problem with the current GI Bill is that it gives more generous benefits to regular service veterans than to reservists or National Guard members, a large number of whom have faced the same dangers and casualty rates as their regular - service comrades during long, full - time deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, the number of people diagnosed with trauma - and stressor - related disorders following the 9/11 attacks only increased approximately four per cent in the period following the attacks (as compared with 16 % following the Breivik attacks), even though the number of casualties was far higher in this attack than in the Breivik attacks — almost 3,000 people died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

ISAF has released additional sets of information to help researchers analyze the casualty data, including precise monthly troop deployment numbers over the past 3 years.

Gurcan notes that while there are a number of advantages to using drones, such as effectiveness at removing key targets and avoidance of friendly casualties, they may also increase the power of extremists amongst civilian populations by creating a siege mentality.

It describes a progression in which the value of a variable (in this case, the number of casualties) is always ramped up or down by the same exponent, or power, as in: two to the power of two (2 x 2) equals four, three to the power of two (3 x 3) equals nine, four to the power of two (4 x 4) equals 16, and so on.

During training, the teams practice resuscitating the high - tech dummy, which can be programmed to mimic any number of dire casualties — for example, it may go into cardiac arrest or need a limb amputated.

Had the attacks occurred later in the day, or simultaneously, the evacuation would have been more difficult and the number of casualties much greater.

The data consisted of 54,679 acts of violence — which they tallied from government and media reports — including the time, date, and the number of casualties for each event.

Humanitarian agencies say Iraq's hospitals are reaching breaking point, as the battle for Baghdad causes the number of civilian casualties to rise rapidly.