2009 was previously the bloodiest year so far for British troops in Afghanistan.
Excess males in central and southern China also contributed to the Taiping rebellion of 1850-64, one of the bloodiest civil wars in history.
THIS weekend in Syria was one of the bloodiest since protests began in March.
October has proved to be the bloodiest month so far for American soldiers in Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001, with 53 soldiers killed by October 27th.
These days, though, the boulevard is again one of Baghdad's bloodiest battlegrounds.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, making it one of the bloodiest days of the Afghan conflict.
Never in its bloodiest prime can the sight of the gigantic Colosseum, full and running over with the lustiest life, have moved one heart, as it must move all who look upon it now, a ruin.
This was the second such attack in two months and the bloodiest in two years.
Visitors have to look hard to spot the small roadside cross that marks the site of perhaps the bloodiest battle ever fought in England.
The team says it's the bloodiest crime scene they've ever seen.
