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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BANGUIE, June 26 (Xinhua) — A stampede at a high school in the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on Wednesday left about 20 people dead and many others injured, the CAR National Assembly (parliament) said in a statement Thursday.
It is reported that on Wednesday, a power transformer exploded at the Barthélemy Boganda Secondary School in Bangui. At the time of the incident, about 5,300 schoolchildren were taking an exam. Panic broke out at the scene, which led to a mass stampede during the evacuation. The dead and wounded were taken to several medical facilities in the capital. The final death toll cannot yet be determined.
At least 29 students were killed in the incident, local media reported. –0–