Stampede Kills 42 Flood Victims Waiting for Aid
From Times Wire Reports
Thousands of flood victims waiting in line for relief vouchers stampeded into a government distribution center in southern India, killing at least 42 people and injuring 37, police said.
Nearly 3,000 people lined up before dawn along a narrow street leading to a school in Madras where they were to collect coupons for provisions, said R. Nataraj, the city’s police chief. When the gates of the facility opened to let in a vehicle, the crowd assumed that the center had opened and surged forward, he said.
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