Sunday, September 20, 2009

Karachi stampede toll mounts to 18


KARACHI: Eighteen women and children were crushed and suffocated to death due to stampede during free distribution of ration in Khori Garden area here on Monday.

Like previous years, the ration was distributed free this year too by a trader Chaudhry Iftikhar in a densely populated area of Khori Garden in Jodia Bazar where hundreds of women had come for ration collection.

But the crowed went out of control running over one another in an attempt to collect the ration which led to a stampede and as a result 18 people including women and children died of suffocation and crush injuries.

The bodies and injured were taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi...link

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