How many people were killed in the Great Smog of London in 1952?

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The Great Smog of London was a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital in early December 1952. The contemporary estimates put the number of fatalities at 6,000, however, the more recent research suggests that it was twice as many, at about 12,000.
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