Sentence examples for persons perished from inspiring English sources

In the resulting carnage, an estimated 140,000 persons perished.

Relentless monsoon rains touched off severe flooding; nearly 600 persons perished.

An express train collided with a freight train; 48 persons perished, and 76 were injured.

A truck overturned and plunged into a deep valley near Kohlapur; 23 persons perished, and 10 were injured.

Flash floods triggered massive mud slides that descended on the town of Senirkent; at least 50 persons perished, and some 200 homes were destroyed.

Severe rains touched off massive flooding and swelled the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) to a dangerously high level; at least 1,200 persons perished in the flooding, some 5.6 million were stranded, and 1.3 million were relocated after some 900,000 homes were destroyed and some 4 million damaged.

Chinese authorities accused Uighurs of responsibility for a suicide car crash in Beijing that killed five people in Tiananmen Square in October and an explosion in Shanxi province in which one person perished.

One person perished on board the ship that sank during the storm.

Although the rainfall generally relieved drought conditions, one person perished due to flooding in Samchok.

A boat capsized after slamming into a bridge on the rain-swollen Ganges River; at least 40 of the 150 persons aboard perished.

A helicopter that was ferrying workers from a gold mine to the capital crashed in the Tien Shan mountains; all 15 persons aboard perished.