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29 women, children killed in stampede in Karachi+(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)ISLAMABAD, April 9_(Kyodo) _ At least 29 women and children were killed in a stampede at a women's religious gathering in Karachi on Sunday, police and hospital sources said. They said the stampede occurred when women attending the religious congregation at the Faizan-e-Madina campus of the Islamic group Dawat-ul-Islami were dispersing. Faizan-e-Madina is located in the busy area of Karachi and Dawat-ul-Islami holds a congregation exclusively for women every Sunday. The private TV station Geo TV quoted an eyewitness as saying that the stampede occurred when a five-year-old girl fell in the main door and her mother stopped to pick her up. Hospital sources said the death toll was expected to rise. |