Reply #: More than 600 killed in Iraq stampede.

[tjdee]

"BAGHDAD: More than 600 Iraqi Shi'ites died in a stampede over a Tigris River bridge in Baghdad on Wednesday, panicked by rumours that a suicide bomber was about to blow himself up, an Interior Ministry source told Reuters.

"Now it's 640," the source said.

Police and hospital sources earlier said at least 575 people had died in the stampede and 255 were injured. "


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1215435.cms


On CNN they said most of the dead are women, children, and the elderly. This was apparently some kind of religious event, lots of people around.

Thanks Bush! Thanks a lot!