Desperate Measures: Man killed in stampede for rations

A 60-year-old man identified at Kheto Kolhi suffocated to death in a stampede at a relief camp near Naukot Fort.


Ppi September 19, 2011
Desperate Measures: Man killed in stampede for rations

MITHI: A 60-year-old man identified at Kheto Kolhi suffocated to death in a stampede at a relief camp near Naukot Fort. Nearly 25,000 internally displace people from Tharparkar and other districts were at the camp. They rushed to a truck of rations on Saturday even though they were asked to remain in their tents.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2011.

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