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(10/06)

KHAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani army helicopters killed around 80 suspected militants on Monday in a dawn attack on a religious school run by a pro-Taliban commander wanted for harboring al Qaeda fighters, a military spokesman said.


(3/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The bodies of at least 80 people apparently killed in sectarian attacks have been found in Baghdad since early Monday, after more than 50 people died in multiple car bombs in a Shi'ite militia stronghold.


(10/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - About 80 right-wing paramilitaries and Marxist rebels died in battle over lucrative cocaine-producing land in western Colombia, a local official said on Thursday, a day after the morning to night gunfight.

TACANA, Guatemala (Reuters) - A landslide in western Guatemala that destroyed two churches and killed 80 people sheltering from fierce weather has emerged as the latest tragedy from Hurricane Stan to strike Central America.


(9/05)

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rebels in the Darfur region of western Sudan said they captured the town of Sheiria from government forces in a surprise attack on Tuesday, killing more than 80 government soldiers.


(7/05)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Scores of people are missing, feared dead after an Indonesian ferry capsized in rough seas off Papua in the east of the vast archipelago, local officials said on Sunday. So far just 15 survivors have been found, but rescue officials said witnesses had reported seeing more than 100 on board when the vessel went down.


(2/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding in Colombia and Venezuela grew to more than 80 on Monday as rescue workers found more corpses, the two countries' governments said.


(10/04)

PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Almost 80 Muslims died in military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being transported in trucks to an army barracks after a violent demonstration, officials said on Tuesday.


(7/04)

DHAKA (Reuters) - Fifty people were feared dead after a river burst its banks in Bangladesh and 30 people may have drowned after a crowded boat capsized in a river in eastern India as South Asia reeled under monsoon flooding on Thursday.


(1/03)

SANAA (Reuters) - More than 80 Somali refugees were feared dead after their boat caught fire and sank off Yemen earlier this month, a U.N. refugee official said Wednesday.


(11/00)

A list of the 179 passengers and crew from Flight SQ006, as provided by Singapore Airlines. Names are listed with family name first. No hometowns were provided. Singapore Airlines said 79 people died and one was unaccounted for. Since it could not identify the remaining person, it listed all 80 as unaccounted for.


(8/99)

BANGALORE, India (AP) -- A bus plunged into an irrigation lake Thursday in the southern state of Karnataka and 80 people were feared drowned, police said. Seven bodies were fished from the bus after it fell into the lake near Uchangidurga village in Davanagere district, state police chief T. Srinivasulu said.


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