Because they only saw the reflection of the Basilisk's eyes. They didn't see them directly.
Colin Creevey didn't look at the basilisk directly, but through his camera. Other people - and creatures - didn't look at the basilisk directly, either, so they were Petrified rather than killed.
The students who were petrified only say the repletion of the basilisk or through the lens of a camera.
You would be killed because it says in the book "The Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death."
Mrs. Norris was not killed, just petrified. The creature that did it to her was a baslisk, which is a giant snake. When you look into the eyes if a basilisk, it kills you. But, Moaning Myrtle had flooded the bathroom, so there was water on the ground. Mrs. Norris only saw the basilisk's reflection, so she was only petrified. :-)
if you mean moaning myrtle, she was killed by looking at the basilisk
In Harry Potter the Basilisk lives in the drain pipes that enter out into the girls bathroom. This bathroom is inhabited by Moaning Myrtle who was killed by the Basilisk.
Yes, she was hiding in the girls bathroom after being teased about her glasses. She heard a male voice and opened the cubicle to tell it to go away but she looked into the eyes of the Basilisk and died instantly.
There is no "kill list" for mythical creatures such as the Basilisk, even in the Greek writings, they were more concerned with how then with who.
No one died in the Chamber of Secrets other than the Basilisk which was killed by Harry Potter. A part of Tom Riddle's (Lord Voldemort) soul was destroyed when Harry took the Basilisk's tooth and stabbed the diary which was a Horcrux. This book also reveals that Moaning Myrtle, a ghost who haunts the girls bathroom on the second floor, was killed 50 years earlier by the Basilisk.
The last known living basilisk was killed in 1996 by Harry James Potter.
A rooster's crow can harm a basilisk. All of the roosters were killed by ginny when she was being controlled by voldemort during The chamber of secrets for this reason.
Moaning Myrtle was crying in the girls bathroom, where the entrance to the Chamber is, when she heard a male voice speaking another language. Myrtle opened the cubicle door to tell the boy to go away and in doing so, she looked into the Basilisk's eyes and died.