1.   Already the inferno has claimed two lives and gutted several homes.

2.   That assault claimed five lives and injured many others.

3.   The disease claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population.

4.   The feud has so far claimed five lives.

5.   The intense fighting is reported to have claimed many lives.

6.   According to the authorities the commando had been responsible for a number of recent attacks in the province of Bilbao, which had claimed the lives of five people.

7.   Strung out over vast areas, the nets claim the lives of fish, sea birds and sea mammals in the Pacific.

8.   Last year Ecstacy claimed the lives of at least fourteen people, some of them at rave parties.

9.   She was killed in the prime of her life on a road notorious for claiming lives.