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Pakistan Food Stampede Kills Many


World  (tags: Pakistan, food, free flour, distribution, unsupervised crowd, crushed, death, sadness )

Dee
- 73 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
At least 14 women and children have been killed in a stampede to get free flour in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say.
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Dee C. (507)
Monday September 14, 2009, 4:03 pm
"Dozens more were injured in the crush, reports say.

The flour was being handed out in a poor, congested neighbourhood of the city by a private group as part of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Pakistani TV showed distraught relatives arriving at a hospital where the injured had been taken.

Some of the victims suffocated in the stampede and others were trampled, officials said.

They said an earlier death toll of 18 had been revised down."

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Elderberry T. (187)
Tuesday September 15, 2009, 3:51 pm
Very Sad...Zardari Puppet traitor cares nothing for Pakistan or the people..
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (251)
Wednesday September 16, 2009, 4:46 am
This should of been done in an orderly fashion as they should know that people will stampede for something that is been handed out especially when they are so poor.. this is very sad
 
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