The government attributes 6,500 deaths per year to smoking-related causes in a country of four million people.

The government has acknowledged a handful of deaths, but has attributed them all to natural causes or to suicide.

India's government attributes the violence in the region to terrorist groups, which it says are financed and armed by Pakistan's intelligence service.

The government attributed the crash to a technical fault, but foreign diplomats speculate that the helicopter was shot down by a Blowpipe.

Over the years the festival gained such popularity on the island that Mauritian government has attributed a public holiday for that day.

"The Israeli government attributes great importance to holding on to regions" in the West Bank.

Two children were killed in the bombing, which the government attributed to "an unintended technical fault."

The government attributes this to the improvements in efficiency achieved during the course of the country's intensive reactor building programme.

The Brazilian government initially attributed 38% of all forest loss between 1966 and 1975 to large-scale cattle ranching.

The Soviet government ultimately attributed the outbreak to anthrax-tainted meat sold by private vendors.