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September 15, 2009

18 Pakistanis Die in Food Stampede
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In Pakistan, eighteen poor women and children were killed in a stampede
for food in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday. They were crushed
to death in a crowd of people who had entered a building to collect
flour and other supplies being handed out as charity.



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