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School stampede kills one, injures 64 in Xinjiang
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-10-17 14:43
One boy student was killed and 64 more pupils were injured in a stampede
happening in a primary school in Aksu City, 1,000 km away from Urumqi, capital
of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Monday, local sources said.
The accident took place at around 9:30 a.m. when the guard bar of the
stairway connecting the first and second floors of the school building in a
primary school collapsed as pupils rushed down from classrooms on the second
floor to attend a regular flag-raising ceremony held on the playground on Monday
morning.
All the injured were rushed to two local hospitals.
The primary school is attached to the No. 2 Middle School of the No. 1
Farming Division, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
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