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(11/06)

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed in clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in southeast Chad last week, the government said on Tuesday, and it accused Arab militia raiders from Sudan of stirring up ethnic violence.


(4/06)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian ferry carrying around 100 people has sunk in the eastern part of the country, but no deaths have been confirmed so far, rescue officials said on Tuesday.


(2/06)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - The skeletal remains of at least 100 bodies were found on Monday at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, police said.


(10/05)

CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Heavy rain and storms paralyzed life in southern India on Thursday, flooding roads, snapping power and phone lines and disrupting flights as the death toll due to the bad weather this month crossed 100.


(8/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan government forces have killed more than 100 militants over the past few weeks in aggressive operations aimed at ensuring security for an election next month, the U.S. military said on Monday.

BOGOTA/QUITO, Colombia (Reuters) - More than 100 Ecuadoreans trying to illegally emigrate to the United States drowned last week when the overcrowded fishing boat they were traveling aboard sank in the Pacific Ocean, authorities said on Wednesday.


(4/05)

DHAKA (Reuters) - More than 100 people remained trapped on Thursday under the rubble of a collapsed nine-story factory in Bangladesh but the stench of death and slow pace of rescue efforts suggested few survivors would be found.


(3/05)

GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 100 Somali and Ethiopian people are feared to have drowned at sea in the past week while trying to reach Yemen aboard smugglers' boats, the United Nations said on Thursday.


(10/04)

SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.


(9/04)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Floods caused by days of heavy rains have killed at least 100 people in southwest China and left thousands stranded, calling into question flood-prevention measures.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Marines said on Tuesday that as many as 100 insurgents had been killed in fighting in the hotbed Iraqi town of Falluja.


(7/04)

KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuters) - Ugandan troops killed more than 100 Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in an attack in southern Sudan, but the leader of the shadowy cult-like group apparently escaped, an army spokesman said Thursday.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Rain fell on the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, raising tempers in the flooded city and compounding the misery of half a million crammed into shelters as waterborne diseases struck down people across South Asia. Nearly 100 people died overnight as the floods spread diseases across huge areas of India and Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday.


(6/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - About 100 people were killed and several hundred wounded in Iraq on Thursday when insurgents launched bloody assaults in five cities to disrupt next week's formal handover to Iraqi rule.


(4/04)

PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Troops and police killed more than 100 gun and machete-wielding Muslim militants Wednesday, including more than 30 in a three-hour mosque shoot-out, on a day of carnage in Thailand's restive south.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Clashes between rival Nigerian tribes of Christians and Muslims have killed more than 100 and wounded 1,000, a Nigerian Red Cross official said Friday.


(2/04)

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The death toll from twin suicide attacks in the northern Iraqi town of Arbil has reached 100, Kurdish television said Tuesday.


(8/03)

WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nearly 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in ethnic warfare which has rocked the southern Nigerian oil city of Warri in the past week, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Friday.


(7/03)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - More than 100 people have been killed as they tried to cross Iran's heavily mined border to visit holy sites in Iraq over the last seven weeks, Iranian state radio reported Sunday. Government officials have repeatedly urged Iranians in recent weeks not to travel to visit Shi'ite Muslim shrines in Iraq, citing security concerns. "In the past 45 days about 110 bodies of people who illegally crossed the border to visit Iraqi holy sites have been handed back to Iran," state radio quoted Javad Salari, head of the coroner's office in the western city of Ilam, as saying.


(12/02)

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's army and rebels accused each other of summary killings on Friday following the discovery of a mass grave in a western area of the west African country under rebel control. The rebel commander who controls the area said President Laurent Gbagbo's troops had repeatedly stormed Monoko Zohi earlier this week. He thought more than 100 bodies were in the grave and in two nearby wells.


(11/02)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Government troops killed at least 100 civilians in a town in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo, witnesses and a human rights group said on Thursday.


(6/02)

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - About 100 people were killed during fighting between Ninja rebels and the army in Congo Republic's capital Friday, a U.N. official in the central African country said Saturday.


(4/02)

An army spokesman, Lt. Col. Olivier Rafowicz, estimated 100 Palestinians had been killed in fighting in Jenin. He denied persistent rumors the army had dug mass graves and said Israelis hadn't removed any bodies. Twenty-eight Israeli soldiers have died in the military campaign, all but five of them in Jenin.


(9/00)

BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion killed about 100 people Friday in suburban Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinhua news agency reported. The agency, quoting sources at the ministry of public security, did not give the exact number of people killed.


(12/99)

MAUBARA, East Timor (AP) -- International peacekeepers in East Timor today found bones and other body parts from two mass burial sites they fear may contain more than 100 victims killed by anti-independence militia gangs and Indonesian troops.


(3/99)

UVIRA, Congo (Reuters) - About 100 civilians were massacred in eastern Congo earlier this week in the latest outbreak of inter-ethnic fighting in the region, residents said Tuesday. They said local Mai Mai warriors allegedly hired by Rwanda's government killed 100 villagers at Magunga on the eastern frontier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika, early Monday.


(12/98)

WARSAW, Dec 10 (Reuters) - An estimated 100 people have frozen to death in Poland since the country was gripped in cold snap in mid-November, a police spokesman Rafal Wasiak told Reuters.


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