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Stampede kills at least 300 in IndiaPosted by Tsingsong, January 26, 2005 7:17 PM
 Aside from reports about "two conferences" in Beijing, most media focused on another disaster in western India. From a Xinhua report: At least 300 people, most of them women and children, were killed and over 200 injured on Tuesday in a stampede at Mandra Devi temple on a hillock in Satara district in Maharastra state in southwest India. The pictured front page is from Beijing Daily Messenger and features a photo of bodies of Hindus pilgrims lying inside the courtyard of a temple in Mandher Devi, 260 km southeast of Bombay. The red headline is : The big black headline is : Housing prices in Beijing will not increase too much in the next three years. |
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