Example sentences of "[n mass] have [be] kill [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said there were unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 people had been killed since the weekend . |
| 2 | The release of Mandela on feb. 11 [ see pp. 37232-33 ] also appeared to have provoked new levels of violence , particularly in faction fighting in Natal townships ; by late March some 250 people had been killed since his release , mostly in Natal and the homelands . |
| 3 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 4 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 5 | By this time more than 20 people had been killed since the beginning of the month in a spate of bombings and gun battles between Ossetes and Georgian militia detachments . |
| 6 | According to The Times of April 12 , the DPK claimed that 50 people had been killed during an attack by government troops on a refugee centre near Halabja on the Iranian border . |
| 7 | At Mbuji-Mayi , in Kasai Oriental region , it was reported on April 23 that nine people had been killed during violent demonstrations . |
| 8 | The Interior Ministry announced on Nov. 12 that 44 people had been killed during the crackdown and a further 180 people remained missing . |
| 9 | In one village , three people had been killed during the distribution of aid . |
| 10 | The report , South Africa — State of Fear , stated that during this period more than 7,000 people had been killed as a result of political violence . |
| 11 | Further to the March-April prison camp revelations , the Interior Ministry on June 7 denied allegations made recently by the UDF in the Washington Post that 20,000 people had been killed at the Lovech and other camps . |
| 12 | Continued heavy fighting on Nov. 10-11 was particularly intense around Vukovar ; it was reported by Zagreb radio that at least 80 people had been killed on Nov. 11 . |
| 13 | Fighting was more protracted in Croatia , where some 300 people had been killed by mid-August . |
| 14 | Subsequent reports put the numbers of dead and wounded far higher , the opposition daily Madagascar Tribune claiming that 138 people had been killed by the guard , and that , in addition , 40 to 80 corpses had been found in a mass grave . |
| 15 | An estimated 3,000 people had been killed in the protracted Natal faction fighting between Inkatha and the UDF , which grouped together pro-ANC organizations . |
| 16 | At least 60 people had been killed in the fighting , bringing the total number of dead since late January to just under 600 , with more than 2,000 injured . |
| 17 | An estimated 13 people had been killed in violent incidents on the previous day , in what amounted to a serious upsurge in township unrest . |
| 18 | On Dec. 13 the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a report claiming that hundreds of innocent people had been killed in the previous six months and criticizing the provisions of the emergency powers decreed in early November which allowed the disposal of bodies by the security forces without a post-mortem or inquest [ see p. 37007 ] . |
| 19 | The report claimed that more than 500,000 people had been killed in the civil war and resulting famine , with both the SPLA and government using starvation as a weapon , while thousands of women and children in the south had been sold into slavery . |
| 20 | The report claimed that at least 26 people had been killed in the attack , mostly government employees who had been singled out and shot . |
| 21 | Wijeratne said that 35 people had been killed in attacks on July 24-25 on villages near Medawachchiya in the north and Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee in the east . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , survivors of the Uzgen pogrom claimed that at least 1,000 people had been killed in that town alone . |
| 23 | A further estimated 50 people were killed in a series of bomb explosions in Hyderabad on July 15 , and the Guardian of July 16 reported that about 3,000 people had been killed in communal violence in the province since 1985 . |
| 24 | A report in the Guardian of Oct. 6 stated that 24 people had been killed in the state on the previous day , taking the October toll to 122 and the total for 1990 to 3,550 [ for previous report on Punjab violence see p. 37611 ] . |
| 25 | Some 17 people had been killed in the fighting . |
| 26 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 27 | The Croatian authorities responded by sending in some 200 heavily armed Croatian riot police , and rejected claims that six people had been killed in the ensuing fighting . |
| 28 | Human rights activists in Cameroon were quoted on April 25 as saying that up to 48 people had been killed in demonstrations and that 58 detained students might also have died . |
| 29 | 24 the government disclosed that in the Tibesti region of northern Chad 49 people had been killed in various attacks on civilians since mid-August by forces loyal to former President Hissène Habré . |
| 30 | Croatian Foreign Minister Zvonimir Separovic said in a letter to EC foreign ministers on Oct. 27 that some 5,000 people had been killed in Croatia since the beginning of July . |