19 dead in mosque stampede
2006-04-09 15:16
Karachi - At least 19 women and children
were killed in a stampede after a religious gathering in the
southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday, witnesses said.
A Reuters correspondent counted the bodies of 14 women and
five children in Karachi's Liaquat National Hospital.
"A girl was coming out of the mosque ... when she fell down,
triggering a stampede," police official Zahid Hussain said.
- Reuters