However, sharp rises in the price of fuel and related driver behavioural changes are reducing 2007-8 highway fatalities in the U.S. to below the 1961 fatality count.

Alarm over the rising fatality count has spurred some action.

The fatality count ranged from 24 to 27 and activists reported that the shelling was part of an attempt by security forces to raid the town after two days of clashes with defectors from the Syrian Army.

The report did not include actual fatality counts.

South Asia Terrorism Portal's fatality count across the six states that saw the majority of the fighting (Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Maharashira, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh) was 794.

In both cases, the official fatality count was slow to reflect the true extent of the disasters.

The exact fatality count is not known, but it is estimated between 200 and 300 settlers were killed in the battle.

Yet, that was almost twice as many as in March, which, at 31, had the second-lowest monthly fatality count of the war.

Tally Called Conservative Mark Bennett, who coordinated the research with Deborah Quin, believes that the project's fatality count is probably lower than the actual number of deaths.

The total fatality count during operations (1953-2004) was 20.