Six students were left dead after a stampede at a junior school on Friday.
Other injured youngsters were helped by ambulances after the incident at Mingtong Elementary School in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province.
Lifenews, a Kunming-based newspaper, announced the accident on Sina Weibo, China's microblogging service
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here you are another one china.org.cn/china/2014-09/26/content_33625275.htm
Wow how do these things manage to happen!
Sad to hear.
Sadly these kinds of things do happen. Although some schools do have signs that say things like 'walk don't run' and limiting the number of students on a staircase at any one time, signs do not enforce themselves.
The surprise should be these incidents don't happen more often. Most of my working life in China has been spent in public buildings and never once have I been involved in, or even witnessed, an emergency evacuation drill. Padlocked doors, windows and other exits exacerbate the potential risks.
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