Murder numbers in a small town, for instance, can be dramatically distorted by a single incident with multiple casualties.
Multiple casualties have been reported, with North West Ambulance Service confirming to The Independent that at least four people have been taken to hospital.
In a sign of how conventional that idea has become here, the newspaper Maariv wrote in an editorial: "The impression is that our leadership is waiting for a strategic terror attack with multiple casualties in order to expel Arafat.
And then there are the calls where the violence has already taken place: a murder outside a gas station, a gang shoot-out with multiple casualties, a domestic-abuse case in which a man beat his girlfriend unconscious after she told him that he needed to help with the bills.
The second case resulted from a house fire with multiple casualties, where physicians in Boston were able to utilize telemedicine to guide the initial resuscitation and airway management of three critically burned children, as well as to arrange for transport of one of the victims, an 11-year-old male with 87% TBSA, from Ukraine to the USA for acute management.
The government's resumption of aerial attacks included strikes on Idlib, Daraa, the Damascus suburbs and other locations, with reports of multiple casualties, including children.
I saw people with minor injuries, burnings to the face, arms, legs, multiple casualties in that way.
The Sandy Hook lawsuit claims that Bushmaster was negligent because the company knew or should have known the weapon could be shared with "unscreened" individuals and posed an "unreasonable risk" of inflicting multiple casualties or serious injury to others.
Cylinder explosions are unusual and tend to lead to multiple casualties, but gas leaks from insecure connections are probably more common and cluster with grey market provision [ 19, 23, 35].
