Panic Causes Five Deaths
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BOGOTA (Colombia), Jan. 7. Five persons died and 40 were injured today in the panic that swept a religious procession after someone had shouted that there were pickpockets in the crowd. The victims were two children and three adults who 'suffocated as they were tramjpled by the procession.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 11
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