[lit-ideas] Meanwhile, in Baghdad....

_http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.main/index.html_ 
(http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.main/index.html) 
 
 
<<BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 648 people  have been killed and 322 others 
injured in a stampede on a bridge near a Shiite  mosque in northern Baghdad, 
police sources said. 
Most of those killed were women and children, sources said.  
According to witnesses, the stampede started after someone screamed that a  
suicide bomber was in the crowd of pilgrims gathered for a religious  
commemoration Wednesday. 
A railing on the bridge then collapsed under the crush of people, and  
hundreds fell to their deaths in the Tigris River about 30 meters (yards) 
below,  
CNN's Jennifer Eccleston reported. 
According to police, some people were crushed to death but most drowned.  
Police expect the death toll to rise as they continue to pull bodies from the 
 river. The dead and wounded inundated five hospitals in the Kadhimiya  
area.>>

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