Death Toll in Indian Temple Stampede at 258
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WAI, India  - Authorities began an investigation  on Wednesday into the cause of a stampede and fire near a Hindu  temple in western India that killed more than 250 people during  an annual pilgrimage.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in an Asian  earthquake and tsunami Sunday has jumped to more than 6,300,  according to officials and local media.
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The latest accident in the northern state of Punjab has claimed more than 20 lives and injured more than 100 others. Over the last decade, in India, an average of 200 people have been killed in train accidents every year.
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At least 62 bodies were recovered after flash floods in Assam state, taking the death toll from fresh flooding in the past three days to 88, police and rescue workers said on Sunday.
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Tidal waves triggered by a powerful earthquake in Indonesia crashed into southern India killing at least 2,606 people and leaving more than 700 feared dead, officials said.
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Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India on Tuesday, as the government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s south would rise further.
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At least 20 people have been killed and several dozen injured in a collision between two passenger trains in the northern Indian state of Punjab.
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At least 30 people were killed when an Indian passenger train collided with a farm tractor pulling a trailer full of people at an unmanned crossing in central India, police said
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BEIJING - At least 56 workers were killed and nearly 100 were missing feared dead after one of the worst coal mine disasters in Chinaâs recent history, officials said Thursday.
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&quot;Our latest data shows 16 dead with most of them killed after their houses collapsed on them. This. He said the quake damaged more than 600 houses, six schools, several churches and mosques.
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NEW DELHI - Five women were killed Saturday when a stampede of thousands of train passengers crushed forward to board trains on two platforms, said India&#39;s railway minister.
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Vijayawada, August 28: Thousands of pilgrims took holy dip on Saturday at the beginning of the 12-day mega Krishna Pushakaram even as four people were killed and 11 injured in a stampede and another drowned in a separate incident.
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Rescuers are racing to get food and clean water to more than 750,000 people left homeless in four flooded Indian states, officials said, as the death toll linked to lashing monsoon rains in the past week rose to 187.
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GUWAHATI, India  - At least 62 bodies were  recovered after flash floods in Assam state, taking the death  toll from fresh flooding in the past three days to 88, police  and rescue workers said on Sunday.
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The Red Cross says the death toll from one of the worst tsunamis in history could top 100,000, as more bodies are found from India to Indonesia.
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BEIJING: At least 56 workers were killed and a further 100 were trapped after one of the worst coalmine disasters in China&#39;s recent history, an official said Thursday.
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NEW DELHI  - A stampede at the main railway station in India's capital killed at least five people and injured seven on Saturday, the railway minister said.