The tsunami swept away entire towns and killed tens of thousands of people.
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It's been nearly five years since Eritrea and Ethiopia called a truce to a border war that killed tens of thousands of people.
Safety in schools has been a major public concern in China since a devastating earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008 killed tens of thousands of people.
At least one million Somalis have died in the conflict that has raged there for decades, and when I visited the Somali capital Mogadishu recently, the country was undergoing a famine that started during summer 2011 and by unofficial estimates has killed tens of thousands and affected millions more.
The earthquake killed more than 300 and made tens of thousands homeless in the area around the city of L'Aquila.
Although violence in Iraq has eased since a peak in 2006-2007 when tens of thousands were killed, insurgents still carry out deadly attacks, especially around the capital.
Tens of thousands of sharks are being killed for a gelatinous thing in a soup.
Pope Francis was the head of the Argentine Jesuits during the country's brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship, during which tens of thousands of suspected subversives were killed, including several Jesuits.
In 1997, an earthquake killed 10 people in the Umbria region, left tens of thousands homeless and seriously damaged monuments and artwork, including the town of Assisi's famed Basilica of St.
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Tens of thousands of Argentines disappeared and were killed during the period, including several Jesuit priests.
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