He would almost certainly have been killed had they blown themselves up, but by blanketing them he would have absorbed some of the blast and potentially saved the two SEALs behind him.

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More than 1, 000 of its men and women have been killed and almost 6, 000 injured.

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The United Nations estimates as many as 300, 000 people have been killed and almost 3 million people have been displaced from their homes in Darfur.

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The United Nations estimates as many as 300, 000 people have been killed and almost 3 million people have been displaced from their homes since the Darfur conflict broke out in 2003.

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Since 2001, almost 7, 000 US service personnel have been killed in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The meeting with Mr Salmond and Mr MacAskill is to take place after it emerged that Peter Tobin, the convicted sex offender who raped and murdered the Polish student, had been on the run for almost a year before he killed her.

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"Sprint has been a disaster stock...the Nextel acquisition almost killed the company, " said Einhorn.

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At least three people have been killed and 25 injured in a pile-up involving almost 100 vehicles in the US state of Virginia, police say.

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Almost 240, 000 people have been mobilised across Russia to tackle wildfires that have killed at least 30 people, officials say.

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She wrote to me on Monday after the news that bin Laden had been killed, and she explained how she still remembers that September morning almost 10 years ago.

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