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Stampede kills five schoolgirls in rain-hit Delhi
  Five schoolgirls were killed in a rain-driven stampede in a government school in east Delhi on September 10, as the city woke to a torrential rain that flooded most areas and forced the office-hour traffic to a crawl. Thirty-three other children received injuries.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit has ordered an inquiry and promised stern action against whoever is found guilty.

About 2,500 students had gathered in the morning for a mid-term exam at the Government Boys and Girls Senior Secondary School in Khajuri Khas. The school runs classes in the morning for girls and in the evening for boys. But because of the exam, they were asked to show up together in spite of the fact that the school clearly didn’t have room enough for them all.

The boys were sent upstairs and the girls were kept down in the playground. But because of the pouring rain, the girls too were sent upstairs. “As more than hundred students tried to take the narrow stairs at the same time, commotion ensued resulting in a stampede,” said area police chief SS Yadav. All the dead and injured were girls.

But a class VII student alleged that the boys caused the stampede. “We were asked to go upstairs where some boys were already present. They pushed us and misbehaved with us that caused the stampede,” she said. “My daughter had gone to take her exams in the morning,” said the mother of a Class XI student. “I did not know that an hour later I would be called to the hospital to identify her dead body.” Like many others, she holds school authorities responsible and wants them punished.
 
 
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Stampede kills five schoolgirls in rain-hit Delhi
Five schoolgirls were killed in a rain-driven stampede in a government school in east Delhi on September 10, as the city woke to a torrential rain that flooded most areas and forced the office-hour traffic to a crawl. Thirty-three other children received injuries.Chief minister Sheila Dikshit has ordered
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