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ATHENS (Reuters) - Freezing weather has killed scores of people in eastern Europe and snowstorms forced the closure of the Acropolis in Athens and blanketed parts of Sicily and Turkey on Wednesday as the Arctic air pushed south. Ukraine said 66 people had died there since the freeze set in last week. Neighboring Russia has asked it to restrict gas usage as demand has rocketed during the coldest winter in a generation in the region. The Romanian Health Ministry said extremely low temperatures in the country had caused 27 deaths in the past three days. Ten people froze to death or died of burns while trying to keep warm in the Czech Republic in recent days after temperatures fell below minus 30 C (minus 22 F), media said. Police said another 14 people have died of exposure in Poland over the past 24 hours.

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LISSA, Nigeria (Reuters) - All 117 people on board a Nigerian airliner died when the Boeing 737 crashed and disintegrated in flames shortly after take-off from Lagos airport, the government confirmed on Sunday.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a flash flood which swept through a primary school in northeast China this month was officially put at 117 on Tuesday, 105 of the victims children, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

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DAKAR (Reuters) - An outbreak of cholera in Senegal which coincided with an annual Muslim pilgrimage has killed 117 people over the past month, the worst outbreak in almost a decade, a senior health official said on Thursday.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - All but two of the 117 hostages so far confirmed dead in the Moscow theater siege died of gas poisoning, the city's top doctor said Sunday.

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(Reuters) - An Iranian airliner carrying 117 people crashed into a mountain while trying to land in western Iran Tuesday, killing all aboard, a government official and local residents said. The Russian-built Tupolev-154, belonging to Iran Air Tours, an affiliate of the state carrier Iran Air, was flying from the capital Tehran to Khorramabad when it disappeared off radar screens southwest of the city.