From Deseret News archives:
Missionary work can be deadly
Toll revised upward; most in the LDS faith die from accidents
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The deaths of the additional missionaries now identified sometimes had not been reported by news media that are available on the Internet or that are explored by major search engines, or stories about them did not include key words used in earlier searches such as "killed" or "murder."
The six additional LDS missionaries killed in past years identified now all died in accidents.
They are Clark Henry Pixton, killed by a fall in the Ukraine in 2000; Jonathan Reed Thomas, hit by a train in Argentina in 2001; Limuula Leauanae, killed in an auto accident in Samoa in 2002; Gregory Scott Johnson, electrocuted accidentally in Mexico in 2002; Michael Joshua Bent, drowned in Samoa flooding in 2003; and Joel Galindo Flores, struck by a truck in Mexico in November 2005.
The four additional Baptist missionaries identified drowned during a beach trip in Mexico in 1999 from a strong ocean undertow: Gary and Carla Sloan, John Weems and Joy Murphy.
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mormons rokk and im glad most of tha mormon deaths were accidents
marissa | May 21, 2008 at 10:47 a.m.
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