Sentence examples for disaster that killed from inspiring English sources

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was a horrifying disaster that killed around 250,000 people.

The tsunami disaster that killed hundreds of thousands has largely vanished from the media.

A 16-year-old boy who survived the migrant boat disaster that killed an estimated 800 people has spoken of his horrific ordeal.

We chose an upbeat soundtrack – arguably a controversial choice when the world is looking back on a disaster that killed 9,000 people.

"I've been through three of these," said Mr. Heflin, alluding to the Challenger explosion and the Apollo disaster that killed three astronauts on the launchpad in Florida.

Her statement at a news conference could bolster theories that the Aug. 12 disaster that killed all 118 aboard was caused by a malfunction in a torpedo.

In 2010, 90 per cent of global natural disasters – that killed 295,000 people at an approximate cost of $130bn £85bnn) – were weather-related and fit in with climate-change models.

Thousands of birds and other animals are known to have been damaged or killed by the spill, a relatively modest toll given the scale of some other oil disasters that killed millions of animals.

Moreover, Western companies now depend on inspectors to uncover hazardous work conditions, like faulty electrical wiring or blocked stairways, that have exposed some corporations to charges of irresponsibility and exploitation after factory disasters that killed hundreds of workers.

It was one of the two disasters that killed more than 500 people in 2014 (Guha-Sapir 2015b).

The last strong El Niño, in 1997 and 1998, was blamed for disasters that killed 23,000 people and did $45 billion in damage.