The question Turks are asking is why this week's tremor killed so many people.
Solicitor Oliver Roche, acting for the family of 20 month-old Breda Devine who was killed, claimed many people still felt unable to return to Omagh town centre because it evoked painful memories and because they feared a repeat of the atrocity.
This was refused, and fighting broke out in October between Mr Ouatarra's men and Mr Gbagbo's, with many people killed.
Mr. BILLY PRUHOSKA (Engineer): Well, if I design that wall and it failed like this one did, and you had that many people killed, I could go to jail for negligent homicide, more than likely.
Firstly, a death every hour equates to less than 10, 000 a year - too many, but several thousand people a year are killed on Britain's roads alone, and many diseases kill far more people.
Adrian Wilkinson, a UN explosives specialist, reckons landmines have killed roughly five times as many people, but at least 100 times more is spent on dealing with them.
"I think the world is infinitely better prepared than it was 90 years ago, " said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl, referring to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed as many as 20 million people.
The feeling that progress is being made was also boosted by the news on November 9th that Indonesian police had killed Azahari Husin, believed to have built the bombs that killed 202 people, including many Australians, in Bali in October 2002.
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Iraq's former president is on trial for the deaths of 180, 000 people, many killed by poison gas.
Sunni-Shia sectarian violence has killed as many as 4, 000 people in the past 15 years in Pakistan.
The earthquake and tsunami killed thousands of people and left many more homeless.
This week's quake in Pakistani-administered Kashmir was of magnitude 7.6, yet may have killed as many as 30, 000 people or more.
At the moment, U.N. personnel refuse to speculate how many people have been killed, not least because they have been slow to move into the hinterland, waiting for Interfet to secure it first.
Our correspondent says that many people have been killed in the fighting in Bangui including civilians, rebels and Chadian soldiers fighting alongside them, as well as loyalist troops and Libyan and Congolese fighters who are giving them support.
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Panama's foreign ministry says 21 people have been killed and many others injured since 1979 by explosions on or near the ranges.
In Tulsa, 35 blocks of black businesses and residences were burned, and as many as 300 people were killed by rampaging, white citizens.
Australia has shown a higher sensitivity to terror threats because so many of the 202 people killed in the Bali bombs of 2002 were Australian.
On July 10th, up to 250 people were killed, and many more badly burned, at Adeje near Warri in southern Nigeria, when oil leaking from a damaged pipeline caught alight, causing an explosion that engulfed in fire an area four kilometres (2.5 miles) across.
Louise Christian, the lawyer for many of the families of the people killed in the disaster, told BBC News this was a devastating decision for the bereaved and accused the CPS of losing its nerve.
Guinea claims that as many as 600 of its people have been killed since serious fighting broke out along its borders in September.
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.
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.
At least 80 people have been killed and there are fears that many more bodies may be beneath the rubble.
As a result, many people have no idea whether their loved ones were killed or took flight to other cities.
With reports that Hurricane Irene killed at least 20 people, knocked out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and left many towns flooded over the weekend, presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) stood by his controversial belief that the federal government should reduce its role in disaster relief.
Earlier this year when a deadly cyclone hit Myanmar that killed almost 100, 000 people and left millions homeless, the government turned away international aid to the frustration of many organizations.
Thus, experts now don't know whether the 1925 Tri-State tornado -- which killed about 695 people when it tore through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana -- was actually a single funnel or many, which is why it isn't officially considered the deadliest single tornado.
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