All four British ships had suffered under fire, with two killed and five wounded on Revenge, three wounded on Donegal and one wounded on Diana.
More than a dozen people, most of them children aged under fifteen, were killed yesterday when a bomb on a bicycle exploded in the centre of the Afghan city of Kandahar.
Protein-energy malnutrition was the eighth leading cause of death among children under five years old, killing more than 225,000 of them, according to study estimates.
"Pneumonia is the leading cause of under age five mortality, killing more than 4,000 children every day," said Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF Executive Director.
View report: Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (PDF) "Pneumonia is the leading cause of under age five mortality, killing more than 4,000 children every day," said Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF Executive Director.
In 1991, there were no children under five who were killed by strangers.
Pneumonia is the single largest cause of death for children under five globally and kills almost 1 million children a year, it is estimated.
But they would do nothing to stop such killings.The number of children under five who were killed in gun accidents in 1997 was 20 (or half the number who drowned in five-gallon plastic buckets).
Malaria is killing a lot of children under five And it is killing pregnant women too.
The official news agency, SANA, cited an anonymous official as saying four American helicopters had "launched aggression on a civilian building under construction," killing eight people, and that the Syrian deputy foreign minister had summoned the chargé d'affaires from the American and Iraqi Embassies in protest.
