S Korean concert stampede kills 11
Afp, Seoul
Eleven people were trampled to death and around 60 injured in South Korea yesterday in a stampede at a pop concert in the southern city of Sangju, police said. The accident happened when about 5,000 people rushed to enter a gate at an outdoor stadium in the city, 270 kilometres (167 miles) south of Seoul. "We found 11 people dead and some 60 injured in the accident," a Sangju police officer told AFP. The dead were mostly people in their sixties but also included a seven-year-old boy and several teenagers, said the officer, who declined to give his full name.
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