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(12/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs tore through a fruit and vegetable market in a Shi'ite area of central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 51 people in another devastating attack fueling a vicious cycle of sectarian violence.


(9/06)

IBB, Yemen (Reuters) - At least 51 people were killed and 238 injured in a stampede on Tuesday at a Yemeni stadium where President Ali Abdullah Saleh was holding a pre-election rally, a Yemeni official said.


(4/06)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 51 people died and 100 were injured on Monday when a huge fire broke out at a crowded consumer electronics fair in the northern Indian city of Meerut and the death toll could rise further, officials said.


(3/05)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on the funeral of a respected Shi'ite professor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has reached 50, with nearly 80 wounded, the U.S. military said Friday.


(10/04)

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility on Sunday for the killing of nearly 50 unarmed Iraqi army recruits in one of the bloodiest attacks on the country's fledgling security forces. Guerrillas also killed a U.S. diplomat in a mortar attack on a U.S. military headquarters on the edge of Baghdad airport in the first known killing of an American diplomat in Iraq since last year's U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.


(8/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed more than 50 Shi'ite militiamen on Wednesday in a significant advance into a Baghdad suburb that is a powerbase for radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the military said.


(5/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces in Iraq have killed 51 guerrillas, including 20 in an air strike on insurgents loading and unloading weapons from vehicles in southeastern Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday.


(1/04)

BOMBAY (Reuters) - At least 51 people died when a short circuit set fire to a makeshift palm-frond hall at a wedding ceremony in southern India Friday, a district official said.


(11/03)

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Angry locals killed five more migrants in India's northeastern state of Assam, including three thrown into a river with their hands and feet tied, taking the death toll to 51 during a week of ethnic violence.


(4/99)

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on Wednesday reported the discovery of a further 51 bodies of ethnic Albanians, including young children, whom it said were killed by Serb forces.


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