Suffocation cited in most deaths
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At least 84 Muslim protesters died, mostly from suffocation so severe their eyes bled, after being arrested and locked in army trucks following clashes with security forces in the south, officials said yesterday.
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At least 82 U.S. youths have died since 1995 engaging in "the choking game" in which they try to experience a fleeting "high" by cutting off the oxygen supply to the brain, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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BEIJING  Construction deaths  Twenty-nine electrical construction accidents claimed the lives of 72 people in the first 10 months of this year, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) reported yesterday.  Fifty-one of them died in 11 major accidents.
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One of two Coast Guard divers who mysteriously died during a training dive in the Arctic last summer sank uncontrollably as far as 190 feet below the icy surface and suffocated, according to an autopsy summary obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Between 1995 and 2007, at least  82 children and adolescents in the United States died as a  result of playing the "choking game," according to a report  released Thursday.
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Â· Rise in suicides to one-third of all deaths Â· Campaign group blames overcrowding Â· Mentally ill inmates 'need care, not punishment'
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Nagem Sadoon Hatab, an Iraqi POW, suffocated last year at a holding facility near Nasiriyah, the first death of an Iraqi prisoner to be acknowledged by the U.S. military. Reserve Sgt. Gary Pittman, of New York, is one of three men charged in the June 2003 death.
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Minneapolis (WCCO) Did you know this? Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers -- killing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined.
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Life expectancy in the United States has increased to almost 78 years, the country's highest on record, amid a downturn in deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke, according to new federal estimates published on Wednesday.
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At least 78 people died from suffocation while being transported in overcrowded military trucks after a violent demonstration in Thailand&#39;s largely Muslim south, government officials said today.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Almost 80 people died in  military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being  transported in trucks to army barracks after a violent  demonstration by Muslims, officials said Tuesday.
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(CBS) The statistics are frightening: One child in the US dies from choking on food every five days, according to the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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About one million cribs designed by Simplicity for Children have been recalled after the suffocation deaths of at least two children, the government said today.
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At least 49 people have died in Leicester hospitals over the last eight months from a superbug, it is revealed.
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The coroner's reports on the deaths of nine patients trapped in a sweltering hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina should be made public, a judge ruled Friday.
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U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.
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Cincinnati didn&#39;t fare well in a new study that looks at the effect of ground-level ozone on the death rate. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that