India death toll from encephalitis crosses 150
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Six more children have died of encephalitis in northern India, pushing the toll from an outbreak that erupted in late June to 151.
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The deadly H5N1 bird flu has killed a  young man in Thailand, raising the death toll from the virus in  Asia to 29 this year, Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said  on Thursday.
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NEW DELHI - Two passengers trains collided along a stretch of rural track in northern India on Tuesday, and at least 15 people are believed to have been killed, according to Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav.
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Chandigarh: In a major train disaster, about 50 people were killed and 150 injured when Jammu Tawi-Ahmedabad Express collided head-on with Jalandhar-Pathankot DMU passenger train near Nirthal Bhangala village of Mukerian in Punjab&#39;s Hoshiarpur district on
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Authorities in India's Kerala state are battling a fever outbreak that has claimed dozens of lives.
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Rescuers are racing to get food and clean water to more than 750,000 people left homeless in four flooded Indian states, officials said, as the death toll linked to lashing monsoon rains in the past week rose to 187.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations put  the latest death toll in Asia's tsunami at around 150,000 and  warned it could still soar as relief workers were confronted by  huge devastated areas without roads, bridges and airstrips.
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At least 50 people were killed and more than 250 injured in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in the northern Indian province of Punjab today.
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Flooding and landslides triggered by  Typhoon Xangsane have raised the death toll to more than 150 in  the past week from the storm that hit Vietnam and the  Philippines, officials said on Wednesday.
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Nearly 100 people, apparently including many children, have been taken to hospital with encephalitis B in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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Nearly 400 people are known to have died from encephalitis this year in Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring areas, Indian officials say.
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Floods in eastern India have left nearly a million people stranded, authorities said, as the nationwide death toll from torrential monsoon rains hit 655.
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Death tolls in Sri Lanka and India continue to rise, with an estimated 11,000 dead in the island state, and 6,000 dead in India. Of those deaths, 3,000 are thought to have occurred in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 22,000  Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  fears of disease grew as soldiers raced to recover rotting  bodies.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000  on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease.
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The death toll from the killer waves unleashed across the Indian Ocean by the megaquake climbed inexorably toward 50,000 tonight. Indonesia believes at least 25,000 people died on Sumatra island - 10,000
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At least 25 people are killed and 50 hurt in a collision between two passenger trains in northern India, officials say.