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Stampede killed 18 women, children: police
KARACHI (September 14, 2009): A stampede killed 18 women and children when the charity workers handed out free flour to the needy in Karachi on Monday, police said.
"We have talked to the officials in city hospitals who have confirmed to us that at least 18 women and children have died in the stampede and dozens others have been injured," Karachi city police chief Wasim Ahmed told reporters.
"The deaths were caused by suffocation and the stampede in one of the most congested localities of Khori Garden, where a charity was distributing free flour among hundreds of women and children during Ramzan," he added.
Injured women and children lay on beds in a crowded hospital, where panicked relatives rushed around trying to find their loved ones and dead bodies lay covered in white sheets, television footage showed.
Ahmed told private news TV that police arrested the distributor, Chaudhry Iftikhar, in connection with the stampede, the cause of which was not immediately clear.
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