19 dead in stampede at Pakistan religious gathering

KARACHI, Apr 9 (Reuters) At least 19 women and children were killed in a stampede after a religious gathering in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi today, witnesses said.

A Reuters correspondent counted the bodies of 14 women and five children in Karachi's Liaquat National Hospital.

''A girl was coming out of the mosque ... when she fell down, triggering a stampede,'' police official Zahid Hussain said.

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