2 die in stampedes at Zimbabwe exhibit
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A woman and a child were killed in stampedes at a Zimbabwe agriculture show packed with people lured by scarce snack foods and cheap Chinese toys and exhibitors hoping to skirt a government price freeze and sell their animals, police said Sunday.
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At least 20 Zimbabwean children have died over the past two weeks after an outbreak of diarrhoea hit the southern town of Kadoma, reports said Friday.
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An anthrax outbreak has killed 120 hippos in Uganda, raising the toll from a disease that has claimed hundreds of wild animals in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in recent weeks, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Two aid workers are killed in Sudan's Darfur region after their vehicle hit a landmine.
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Two people have been killed after a crane collapsed on a building site in south-west London.
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A general strike against President  Robert Mugabe collapsed again on Wednesday with Zimbabweans  apparently too worried about keeping their jobs and avoiding a  police crackdown to take part.
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As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims, including  women and children, were crushed or burned to death in a  stampede and subsequent fire near a temple in western India on  Tuesday, the district's top official said.
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Four people have been killed and 11 injured in a stampede in the south of India. All the injured have been sent to hospital. Four people have been killed and 11 injured in a stampede in Andhra Pradesh, south of India.
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At least 150 Hindu pilgrims have been killed during a stampede at a Hindu festival in India, officials say.
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A stampede at a presidential election campaign rally in Yemen kills and injures dozens of people, reports say.
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A diarrhoea outbreak has hit Zimbabwe's capital Harare following weeks of uncollected garbage, sewer blockages and erratic water supplies, the state-owned The Herald daily reported on Friday.
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As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims, including  women and children, were crushed or burned to death in a  stampede and subsequent fire near a temple in western India on  Tuesday, the district's top official said.  Officials said a short-circuit may have sparked a fire in  roadside stalls when nearly 300,000 people were on an annual  pilgrimage to the popular Mandher Devi temple, on a hilltop  near Wai, about 160 miles southeast of Bombay.
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At least two people have died Monday and scores more had to be plucked to safety by helicopter as a fire swept through a packed office block in the Bangladesh capital.
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Five people were killed and dozens &#151; mostly schoolchildren and teenagers &#151; were injured Tuesday in a stampede during a campaign rally for the president, security officials said.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sent from court to hospital with a deep head wound on Tuesday as world outrage grew over the government's violent crackdown on political protests.
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IBB, Yemen  - At least 10 people were killed and   more than 50 injured in a stampede on Tuesday in a Yemeni   stadium where President Ali Abdullah Saleh was holding a   pre-election rally in the southern province of Ibb.
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Sobbing relatives of Hindu pilgrims killed at a temple carried bodies for cremation on Wednesday and poured out their anger at police for failing to protect worshippers trampled to death in a stampede during a massive religious procession. The death toll rose to 258.