Manan Vatsyayana
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/ 18 December 2005

Stampede at Indian relief camp leaves 45 dead

At least 45 people, mostly women, were killed and more than 50 injured on Sunday in a stampede for food coupons at a flood relief camp in the southern Indian city of Chennai. More than 3 000 people affected by floods had gathered at a government school in the Tamil Nadu state capital to collect food coupons early on Sunday.