"Boy thrown by police from train in India" by Associated Press | September 12, 2009
PATNA, India - A 12-year old Indian snack vendor had to have his leg amputated after railway police threw him out of a moving train when he failed to pay them 20 cents as a bribe, officials said yesterday....
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Police were also investigating allegations that the policemen roughed up passengers who tried to intervene.
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Yeah, they did miss the Gandhi gondola along the Ganges, didn't they?
Seems to be a pattern with Indian police, doesn't it?
Another disturbing pattern.
"Five students killed, dozens injured during stampede at New Delhi school" by Associated Press | September 11, 2009
NEW DELHI - Hundreds of students who were jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede yesterday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured in India’s capital....
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The stampede occurred early in the day as students arrived for an exam, O.P. Kalra, medical superintendent of the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, told reporters.
Amod Kant, a former police officer and well-known child rights activist, said the students taking the exam were told to move to a higher floor of the school because heavy rains had caused flooding on the ground floor. The stampede erupted amid the chaos of moving students up the stairs when others suddenly came rushing down....
WTF?
Just after the stampede, parents gathered outside the school, wailing in anguish.
AS YOU WOULD BE!
A few threw rocks at the building, news reports said. Angry residents also hurled stones at a bus and fire engine, injuring one person, before police reinforcements arrived on the scene, witnesses said.
Yeah, the Indian cops to the rescue.
Did they huck a baby on this mission?
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