From AP:
A stampede on a stairwell at a middle school in eastern China killed six children and injured 11, state media said Monday.
The stampede occurred Saturday night when hundreds of first-grade students at Tutang Middle School in Jiangxi province’s Duchang County (ʱüË•øÈÉΩÊòåÂéøÂúü°òÈïá‰∏≠Â≠¶) swarmed out of their evening classes, the China Daily newspaper said.
Hundreds of students fell over each other in the stairwell between the first and second floors of the three-story building, it said. [Full Text]
Read the Xinhua report: “Six students trampled to death in China school,” says”Six students were trampled to death at a middle school in eastern China and 39 were injured when a sudden panic caused them to swarm into a staircase.”
Here is the original report in Chinese from Sina web.
(Photo of the stairs where the accident happened)
