death toll

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There are no reliable figures for the death toll, but it is thought to be at least 50,000.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Leipzig fire service chief Axel Schuh also gave a death toll of two.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Other agencies place the death toll in the tens of thousands.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

Kino’s hypocrisy stems from the same swamp as the original’s fictitious Dr. Gröss, whose lurid footage climaxed with a tsk-tsking screed against poverty, pollution and fascism as major contributors to the global death toll.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The last griffin died as the clocks struck the half hour, and the noise rang out like a death toll through the sleeping city.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell