A Third of the Dead Are Said to Be Children
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Survivors arranged for mass burials and searched for tens of thousands of the missing in countries thousands of miles apart.
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An Armagh community is trying to come to terms with the deaths of three teenagers in a road crash.
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More kids appear to be playing a risky game that can lead to accidental strangulation.
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The most heart-rending scenes the world watched recently in aghast on television screen were the burial of hundreds of children beside their wailing parents, relatives and well-wishers in the North Ossetian region of the Russian Republic recently.
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The number of children dying from abuse could be much higher than previously thought, the NSPCC says.
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MENDEN-BARGE, Germany -- Authorities have unearthed the remains of 51 people, many of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler's Nazi regime.
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One in three abused babies who return to their families is harmed again, say experts.
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Mothers wailed over the coffins of their children Sunday and dozens of townsmen dug graves in a football field-sized piece of scrubland next to the cemetery. Funeral processions snaked through the streets of this grief-stricken town as Russians began to bury victims of the terror attack on a school that left more than 350 people dead.
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AS THE grim images of parents weeping inconsolably over their children&#39;s graves were beamed into drawing-rooms the world over, few eyes would have been dry or hearts un-enraged at the fiends who target children.
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Some of the children cry, refusing to speak but shivering in shock at the day&#39;s horror. Others lie lifeless in the morgue of Baghdad&#39;s Yarmouk hospital.
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Six months ago, the death of a 12-year-old Prince George's County boy from untreated dental decay shed a grim spotlight on gaps in federal and state medical assistance programs charged with providing care to 30 million poor children.
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The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF said it was counselling more than 100,000 children who were traumatised by the death of relatives in the tsunami-hit southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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As nameless bodies are bulldozed into mass graves, the lack of physical remains is intensifying the grief for families still wondering about missing loved ones.
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The death of the children may well add to the crescendoing anger many Afghans feel about civilian casualties from American and NATO military operations.
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Excessive caseloads, haphazard medical records and lack of child care for working mothers contributed to the deaths of 12 children this year whose families had been red
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Reports of four more deaths have brought to 12 the number of people who have died since the rains began.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.