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[Captain America: Civil War] How did so few people die in the battles Ross shows the Avengers?

In Civil War there's a scene where General Ross goes through the destructive events the Avengers cause, specifically the Battle of New York, the Battle at the Triskelion, and the Battle of Sokovia. In this scene, it's shown that 74 people died in New York, 23 at the Triskelion and 177 in Sokovia: less than 300 total deaths.

How is this possible? New York is one of the most populous cities in the world, and an army of aliens was raining down on it; 77 would be a miracle.

S.H.I.E.L.D. did evacuate the Triskelion when the Helicarriers crashed, but surely there would be some who didn't make it out, let alone all the people who would die afterwards as a result of the debris and smoke.

Sokovia was also evacuated, but Novi Grad (the actual part of Sokovia that Ultron sent flying) was an entire *city,* plus the Ultron bots flying around killing everyone and, once again, the people who would die afterwards from the wreckage.
gpt
Well for the Triskelion, it’s only civilian casualties, probably caused by stray helicarrier fire, falling debris, and apparently water from when they crashed. Sokivia, the avengers evacuated the city first as best they could, and Ultron let them. We see their main focus throughout the fight is damage control and stopping civilian casualties. Not like Ultron was actively killing anyone anyway, what are a few thousand survivors when billions will die in a few minutes. Plus it kept the Avengers busy, which worked to his advantage. New York is... baffling. The military was there and the Avengers and police were all trying to evacuate, protect, and contain, but even if we assume a best case scenario the casualties should be in the thousands, or tens of thousands if things go really bad.