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  1. BEIJING, November 22 (RIA Novosti):“The death toll in a coal mine explosion in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province has risen to 92, Xinhua reported Sunday.

    “Another 16 workers are still being searched for under the debris of China’s deadliest mine accident in two years. A total of 528 miners were inside the mine at the moment of the explosion.”

    Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric dam in Siberia, damaged in an August accident which killed 75.

    Joint News Release WHO/IAEA/UNDPChernobyl, 1986: “As of mid-2005 . . . fewer than 50 deaths had been directly attributed to radiation from the disaster, almost all being highly exposed rescue workers, many who died within months of the accident but others who died as late as 2004.”

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