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The first entry in the Oxford English Dictionary for mortal wound is dated 1578 [7] and the first entry for mortally wounded is dated 1569. [8] Pre-1569, in the 1390 Melibeus by Geoffrey Chaucer, the author uses the term "mortal woundes" in the quote "Thre of his olde foos..betten his wif wounded his doghter with fyue mortal woundes". This is ...
Occasionally she would call home, but would burst into tears when she’d start to describe what she was doing. Then she stopped trying. A young officer in her platoon, Ben Colgan, was fatally wounded in a bomb blast. She was devastated. “I couldn’t help Lt. Colgan,” she told the military newspaper Stars and Stripes in 2004.
Killed: The usual international definition, as adopted by the Vienna Convention in 1968 is 'a human casualty who dies within 30 days after the collision due to injuries received in the crash'. [2] Serious injury: In 2015, the European Union defined a concept of serious injures in order to share the same definition across the whole European ...
12 August – RAF Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Aaron was fatally wounded when the Short Stirling bomber he piloted during an air raid on Turin was reportedly (according to his posthumous Victoria Cross citation) hit by machine gun fire from an enemy night fighter, which killed his navigator and wounded other crew members, although it is ...
In civilian usage, a casualty is a person who is killed, wounded or incapacitated by some event; the term is usually used to describe multiple deaths and injuries due to violent incidents or disasters. It is sometimes misunderstood to mean "fatalities", but non-fatal injuries are also casualties.
For instance, in 2010, a 2-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun his mother had left in a dresser drawer, forgetting to put it in her lockbox. She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and ...
Globally, millions are wounded or killed by the use of guns. [2] Assault by firearm resulted in 180,000 deaths in 2013, up from 128,000 deaths in 1990. [4] There were additionally 47,000 unintentional firearm-related deaths in 2013. [4] Levels of gun-related violence vary greatly among geographical regions, countries, and even sub-nationally. [5]
A man who may have been sexually assaulting a woman in Las Vegas was fatally stabbed after a group of people intervened to help the victim, authorities said Wednesday.