They Sadly Died

Of late, whenever a newscaster announces deaths--a car crash, coronavirus, terrorist bomb etc.--they say that people sadly died. You might think this is a courteous show of feeling, but of course since 'sadly' has become de rigueur, it is nothing of the sort; it is only a cluttering of speech.  The devil in me wants to ask, after the newscaster says thus-and-so many people sadly died of coronavirus, how many additional victims went out defiantly, angrily, or even jubilantly?  Another devil in me wants to know, exactly whose sadness are you speaking of?  The dead person's?   The deceased person's friends and family? Seems presumptuous. Your own?  Or is it impersonal, as in the 'sad fact of their dying'?  

Written journalism has also caught the bug.  Today I read: 

When officers arrived they found two infants inside the vehicle, and they were sadly pronounced dead at the scene by emergency paramedics.