Reports count between 24 and 27 deaths, mostly Coptic civilians, and over 300 injured.

The figures for last year, which came out on Sept. 2, counted 41,471 deaths, down 1.3 percent from the previous year, when 42,013 died.

One counted more than 21 000 deaths.

Peru, which was recording some 4,500 cases a day in mid-February, had by then counted 246,246 cases and 2,416 deaths.

He counted 180 deaths directly resulting from leucotomy over a period of five and a half years.

The violence has run highest in Natal, where the researchers counted 1,414 deaths.

In the first half of 1994, he counted 215 deaths at the hands of vigilante groups.

ICE has counted 107 deaths in detention since October 2003.

On May 21 the three health officers counted 70 new deaths, with the effects of cannibalism observed in five cases.

The hospital counted forty-four deaths in three days, and was struggling to treat the wounded.