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Saturday, February 4, 2006
TRAGIC NEWS FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Stampede at Manila Stadium Kills 88
By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer
MANILA, Philippines - At least 88 people were trampled to death early Saturday in a stampede outside a stadium where thousands of people had gathered to watch a popular TV game show, the Philippine Red Cross said.
Red Cross chairman Sen. Richard Gordon said 280 others were hospitalized with injuries.
About 30,000 people were waiting to get inside the stadium for the program "Wowowee," said Vicente Eusebio, the mayor of Pasig, the Manila suburb where the stampede occurred.
Suddenly the crowd surged toward the gates, thinking they were open, he said.
One survivor said some people became rowdy when they could not enter. The show was to include a raffle with a jackpot equivalent to $384.
"The raffle tickets can be obtained at the gate so everyone was in a hurry. There was pushing and people in front of the gate were crushed," said Myrna Britania, 42, who spoke at a hospital where the injured were being treated.
Britania, who had spent all night in line, said "people at the back of the line were pushing not knowing there were already people dead lying on the ground in front."
Eusebio and police denied reports that the stampede was caused by a bomb scare.
Merquieades Salazar cried over the body of his wife, who was among those crushed. Salazar, 45, said the couple was jobless and wanted to try their luck at winning the jackpot.
"In the desire to win money, she is the one I lost," Salazar sobbed as he stroked his dead wife's hair.
"We both fell and we were both pinned to the ground," he said.
Authorities were collecting the dead and lining up the bodies on the side of a street outside the stadium for identification as bags and shoes lay scattered outside the hall.
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I was quite shocked when I first heard about this. Honestly. I never thought something tragic like this would happen on Wowowee's first anniversary. It's really, really sad.
Let's just pray for those affected by this tragedy. May the souls rest in peace, may the injured be healed, and may this never happen again.
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