Delhi school stampede
Five girl students were killed and at least 34 injured in a Thursday morning stampede in a school in Delhi following rumours that electric current had leaked into the water in the flooded building after heavy overnight rain, police said.
The incident took place in the Government Senior Secondary School (Class 6-12) in Khajoori Khas in northeast Delhi at around 9 in the morning. The victims were mostly from classes 7, 8, 9 and 10, who had come to the school in pouring rain for their half-yearly examinations.
Image: A mother (centre) cries as she searches for her daughter outside the Delhi school where the stampede occurred. (Photograph copyright AP.)
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