Talk:1975 Banqiao Dam failure

Death toll of 240,000
The only mention of the high figure of 240,000 people as far as i could see comes from the (now seemingly deleted) people's daily article that reads (per google translate):

The figure of 240,000 sounds more like speculiation in this qutoe than anything else. Should we really take this quote as a high estimate on the number of deaths included everywhere from the lede to the various lists of man made disasters by death toll here on wikipedia? Daikido (talk) 09:20, 18 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I think the section "Casualties" in this article already discusses the number of deaths in detail. For example, another source listed a number of death estimates, ranging from 26,000 to 230,000. And the source from U.S. government  estimates fatalities to be 171,000 - 230,000 (on page 118). Overall, I'm not sure if Discovery was just making a speculation about "240,000" in its documentary, but I think either 230,000 or 240,000 can be the upper limit mentioned in the lede. (We can use the former if we want to be stricter.) SCreditC (talk) 00:41, 20 September 2023 (UTC)