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Report: At least 19 teenagers dead in Tanzania disco stampede

Posted : Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:54:16 GMT
By : DPA
Category : Africa (World)
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Nairobi/Dar es Salaam - At least 19 teenagers and children have died during a stampede at a disco organized to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Tanzania, reports said Thursday. The BBC, quoting police officials in the Tabora region of northwest Tanzania, said that the stampeded occurred Wednesday night after "a commotion in the disco."

Those killed were aged between 12 and 17, police said.

Others are being treated for injuries and an investigation has been launched.

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