FIVE KILLED IN CINEMA PANIC
%• 7 Pm.) .MEXICO CITY, Aug. 27. Persons died in a picture in Mexico City to-night when !®y of “fire” started a mad stam'or the exits. panic began when a man, in n g a cigarette, set fire to the proof the woman beside him. She and 600 persons in the bal?bshed for the doors. jYje man, two women, and two :s?™ren were found trampled to death £?, *he mob had surged out. . The j??®g programme was extinguished We crush of bodies.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 7
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