deadliest

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The crash is the country's deadliest air disaster in decades, though the cause of the incident has long remained a mystery.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Brick buildings are among the deadliest types of structures in an earthquake, as walls collapsing outward can kill people walking on a sidewalk and even crush cars and buses with deadly force.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

“That a name evocative of Disneyland has been applied to a depopulated, decimated swath of Ukrainian coal-and-steel country could appear jarring as Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War II continues to rage,” they wrote.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

Monday's incident came almost six months after the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history, on October 28, which left more than 120 dead across favelas in Rio's North Zone.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

The Spanish flu of 1918 had raged through the continent, killing nearly 20 million men and women worldwide and ranking among the deadliest natural disasters in history.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee