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| | GEO Pakistan | | Free flour distribution: death toll reaches 18 in stampede | Updated at: 1809 PST, Monday, September 14, 2009
 KARACHI: Eighteen women and children died due to stampede and suffocation during free distribution of ration in Khori Garden area here on Monday.
Like previous years, the flour was distributed free this year too by a trader Chaudhry Iftikhar in a very populous area of Khori Garden in Jodia Bazar where the stampede took place due to huge gathering and 18 people including women and children died of suffocation and slipping from stairs of the building.
Thosed dies and injured in this sad incident were taken to the Civil Hospital.
According to CCPO Karachi Waseem Ahmed, the medico legal officer of the Civil Hospital confirmed 18 deaths.
The CCPO said that adequate arrangements were not made at the place where free atta was being distributed while the police was also not informed of this distribution.
The Karachi police chief told that trader Chaudhry Iftikhar has been arrested and liability in the incident would be determined after the investigation.
Meanwhile, taking the notice of the incident President Asif Ali Zardari, prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and chief minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah have asked for investigation report while they directed to provide best medical facilities to the wounded. |  |
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