Stampede kills 6 primary schoolchildren in China

By Washington Examiner

Published September 26, 2014 2:29pm ET

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Stampede kills 6 primary schoolchildren in China — A girl is carried by her relative as other parents wait for their children outside a gate of Mingtong Primary School after a stampede at the school, in Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. Six schoolchildren died in the stampede, authorities said. It wasn't clear what caused the stampede among the first- and second-grade students of the primary school, the city's propaganda office said on its microblog. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT | AP

BEIJING (AP) — Six schoolchildren died and 25 were injured in a stampede Friday at a primary school in the southern Chinese city of Kunming, authorities said.

It wasn’t clear what caused the stampede among the first- and second-grade students of Mingtong Primary School, the city’s propaganda office said on its microblog.

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