Lifesaving mission ends with 6 dead
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The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice. The plane never made it, crashing into the lake's choppy waters and killing all six people aboard Monday.
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At least 42 people, including many elderly, children and tourists, were killed in Malaysia and many more were missing from the worst-hit area on the holiday resort island of Penang, rescue officials said.
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Six people are killed and at least 36 injured in a passenger train derailment in northern Spain.
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An avalanche in central Switzerland has killed six people, rescue services said Thursday.
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Six people have died and dozens wounded, 12 seriously, in a train crash in southern Australia.
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Description: A Coast Guard helicopter goes down in the Bering Sea, leaving six missing near the Aleutian Islands. The helicopter was transferring crew members from a freighter that had run aground, spreading
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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Six people died and more than 20,000 others have been displaced by Mozambique's rising waters, the worst since the deadly flooding of 2000 to 2001, the National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) said Monday.
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The number of dead was approaching 24,000 Monday in the wake of Sunday&#39;s South Asia earthquake and devastating tsunamis. Eight Americans have been reported dead, and US Secretary of State Colin Powell says several hundred more are missing.
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Six people have died and 23 survivors rescued after becoming trapped in an underground shaft on the Spanish island of Tenerife, local officials said.
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Six people are killed while exploring tunnels on Spain's Canary Islands, probably from lack of oxygen, officials say.
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A fire that broke out on an Indonesian ferry on Thursday, killing six people, has been put out, the navy said.
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At least 124,000 people have been confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami disaster as the effort to deliver relief supplies to the millions affected by the giant wave gathers pace.
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The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over but more than 200 people have died after troops stormed the building.
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At least seven civilians, including four children, were killed during a military operation against al-Qaida-linked militants on a southern Philippine island, officials said Tuesday.
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Five children &amp;#151; four of them siblings &amp;#151; drowned during a church outing when they were caught in a river&#039;s current, apparently while trying to help a sixth child who was rescued, authorities and the victims&#039; relatives said Monday.
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Â· Fall in water levels grants reprieve to stricken areas  Â· Body of woman in river takes death toll to seven.