Example sentences of "people have died from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1980s 300 people had died from eating the poisoned fish , and at least 1500 more were disabled . |
| 2 | In the second half of 1990 at least 300 people had been charged with offences against state security in the region , and 11 people had died from torture while under arrest . |
| 3 | The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas . |
| 4 | On Oct. 19 the government denied reports that up to 300 people had died from starvation following floods in northern Bangladesh . |
| 5 | According to Le Monde of Oct. 22 widespread famine had triggered violent protests in a number of northern districts where , the report claimed , up to 5,000 people had died from water-borne diseases in the last two months . |
| 6 | The ICRC estimated that in the town of Iscia Baidoa , 220 km north-west of Mogadishu , 7,000 of the town 's 40,000 people had died from starvation in recent months . |
| 7 | Although the hamlet had just 38 houses , six people had died from cancer , four others suffered forms of the disease and others had motor neurone disease which attacks the central nervous system . |
| 8 | But the corn cores caused abdominal pain and some patients said people had died from it . |
| 9 | People have died from the resultant pollution , which includes the accumulation of coal dust in the air , drying up of drinking water supplies , and depletion of local fish stocks . |