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Ukraine has estimated that some 4 400 people died as a result of the accident and during its cleanup but a 2005 report prepared by several UN agencies and regional governments indicated that some 50 deaths were directly attributable to radiation from the disaster and an estimated 4 000 deaths might ultimately result from it mainly due to higher cancer rates. That prediction was challenged the following year by a Greenpeace report that said more than 90 000 deaths might result roughly half of which would be due to conditions other than cancer.

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