People carry an injured bus driver after a crowd angered over a stampede at a school pelted stones on a private bus on police duty in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the stampede was set off by rumors about an electrical short-circuit in the government-run school. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

People carry an injured bus driver after a crowd angered over a stampede at a school pelted stones on a private bus on police duty in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the stampede was set off by rumors about an electrical short-circuit in the government-run school.

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  7. People look at a fireworks warehouse where a blaze erupted late Friday killing at least 32 people, in Palliput, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. The victims in Friday night's explosion were mainly traders buying fireworks in bulk as millions of Hindus prepared to celebrate Deepavali, the festival of lights, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Setting off fireworks is a major part of the celebration's evening festivities.
  8. Relatives of victims of a fireworks warehouse blaze that killed at least 32 people look on outside a hospital in Palliput, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. The victims in Friday night's explosion were mainly traders buying fireworks in bulk as millions of Hindus prepared to celebrate Deepavali, the festival of lights, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Setting off fireworks is a major part of the celebration's evening festivities.
  9. Relatives of victims of a fireworks warehouse blaze that killed at least 32 people look on outside a hospital in Palliput, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. The victims in Friday night's explosion were mainly traders buying fireworks in bulk as millions of Hindus prepared to celebrate Deepavali, the festival of lights, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Setting off fireworks is a major part of the celebration's evening festivities.
  10. People look at a fireworks warehouse where a blaze erupted late Friday, killing at least 32 people, in Palliput, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. The victims in Friday night's explosion were mainly traders buying fireworks in bulk as millions of Hindus prepared to celebrate Deepavali, the festival of lights, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Setting off fireworks is a major part of the celebration's evening festivities.
  11. People look at a fireworks warehouse where a blaze erupted late Friday, killing at least 32 people, in Palliput, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. The victims in Friday night's explosion were mainly traders buying fireworks in bulk as millions of Hindus prepared to celebrate Deepavali, the festival of lights, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Setting off fireworks is a major part of the celebration's evening festivities.
  12. A police officer baton charges one of stone-throwing protestors angered over a stampede at a school, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the stampede was set off by rumors about an electrical short-circuit in the government-run school.
  13. People carry an injured bus driver after a crowd angered over a stampede at a school pelted stones on a private bus on police duty in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the stampede was set off by rumors about an electrical short-circuit in the government-run school.
  14. A mother, center, cries as she searches for her daughter outside a school in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left at least five girls dead and 31 other students injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the stampede was set off by rumors about an electrical short-circuit in the government-run school.
  15. Indian policemen, fire brigade personnel and rescue workers try to clear the debris at the site of a landslide at Lal Bahdur Shastri Nagar in Mumbai on September 4, 2009. Twelve people were killed and more than a dozen others injured after heavy overnight rains swept away slum dwellings in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said. About 15 to 20 homes, most of them illegal shanties, were washed away in a landslide in the Andheri district of the city, senior police officer Amitabh Gupta was quoted as saying by the domestic Press Trust of India news agency.

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