After leaving Ginger Town and before confronting Android 17, Cell moves from town to town absorbing people. The evidence includes Cell saying he is heading to another town, a town where only clothing remains, a report that more than half the residents of a large town at South District 48 were killed, and an explanation that he obtained energy by killing humans. “District 48” identifies a location; it does not mean 48 separate towns. The boundaries of each town and the exact number of victims remain unidentified. News reports of hundreds of thousands of cumulative victims may include earlier attacks, so that estimate is not assigned as the size of this group. Ginger Town residents, investigators and reporters, and the later island residents, Royal Defense Force, and Trunks are excluded from this group.
This is based on matching Yamcha's wish to Shenron to revive the people killed by Cell with the scope of the wish that Shenron carries out. Eligible people absorbed in towns after Cell left Ginger Town are revived. No individual revival or number of people is confirmed, and the cumulative approximate figure is not reused as the revival count. They are a separate group from the Ginger Town residents, investigators and news personnel, islanders, the Royal Defense Force, and Trunks.