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(2/06)

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - At least 52 people were killed and 80 were injured in a fire that gutted a textile mill in Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong, police and witnesses said on Friday.


(2/05)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fifty-two people, mostly women and children, were killed when a passenger train collided with a tractor carrying people back from a wedding in central India, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said on Friday.


(1/02)

KABUL (Reuters) - Villagers say U.S. jets killed 107 civilians. The United Nations believes 52 died. But with the United States maintaining it is striking Taliban and al Qaeda targets, the new Afghan government has been steadfastly silent over the increasingly embarrassing -- and potentially destabilizing -- cases of what Washington calls collateral damage.


(3/00)

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A passenger bus careened off a road in southern Pakistan on Monday, plunging into a water-filled ravine and killing 52 people, police said. Another 24 people were injured, some of them seriously, police said.


(10/98)

KAFR EL-DAWAR, Egypt (AP) -- Rescue teams found five more bodies today after a train jumped the tracks and crashed through shops in a town in northern Egypt. At least 52 people were killed.


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