Seventeen students were injured in a stampede in a primary
school in Qujing City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Tuesday morning.
The accident happened at about 9:50 AM when a boy student of
Tongquan Primary School, Malong County, suddenly shouted "my shoes
fell off into the ditch" in a toilet, sending the rest of the
students into panic and running outside, according to the publicity
department of Qujing City Committee of the Communist Party of
China.
In this process, some pupils fell to the ground, causing a
serious stampede.
Most of the injured are students of low grades and two are
seriously injured. All the injured students are hospitalized.
(Xinhua News Agency August 29, 2007)