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(8/06)

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Swirling floodwaters inundated several towns and cities in western and southern India on Tuesday as the military deployed helicopters and boats to help hundreds of thousands of marooned people. Nearly 200 people have been killed in flooding due to incessant rains over the past week in the western states of Gujarat and Maharashtra and the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.


(5/06)

INAGBE BEACH, Nigeria (Reuters) - Up to 200 people were burned to death on Friday when an oil pipeline exploded on the outskirts of Lagos after thieves tapped into it to steal fuel.


(9/05)

TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqi army has killed up to 200 insurgents in the northern town of Tal Afar, commanders said on Monday.


(6/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Heavy rain has triggered floods and mudslides in southern China, leaving at least 200 people dead or missing, a resident and state media said on Wednesday.


(3/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - Torrential rains have killed more than 200 people and destroyed thousands of houses in several parts of Afghanistan in recent days, officials said on Sunday.


(11/04)

MANILA (Reuters) - About 200 people died after flash floods and landslides devastated several coastal towns and left swathes of the northern Philippines under water, officials said on Tuesday.


(9/04)

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces killed anti-U.S. rebel cleric Hussein al-Houthi and dozens of his supporters on Friday, ending over two months of clashes in which over 200 rebels and troops have died.


(1/04)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Up to 200 people were missing and feared dead after a ferry was destroyed by fire on the mighty Congo River in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, U.N. officials in the country said on Saturday.


(7/03)

BARISAL, Bangladesh (Reuters) - More than 200 fishermen are missing feared drowned after nearly 60 Bangladeshi fishing boats sank in the Bay of Bengal during a storm, police and officials said on Saturday.


(2/03)

SEOUL (Reuters) - The confirmed death toll in last week's South Korean subway arson attack has risen to almost 200 as forensic experts retrieved more charred remains from the two trains destroyed in the inferno, officials said Thursday.


(6/02)

DODOMA, Tanzania (Reuters) - Hospital officials said they had recovered 200 bodies after a passenger train and a cargo train collided in central Tanzania Monday.


(1/01)

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Traffic accidents surged during Tet, Vietnam's Lunar New Year holiday, killing about 200 people, 1.5 times more than in the same period last year, officials said Monday.


(7/99)

MOSCOW, July 16 (Reuters) - Russians, used to wrapping up warm against sub-zero temperatures, are struggling to cope with months of scorching heat, which has left hundreds dead from drowning in rivers and lakes.


(6/99)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's new civilian government has deployed new troops to the oil-rich Niger Delta, where 200 people have died in four days of bloody tribal clashes, newspapers reported Wednesday.


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