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csmith28 · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject: Is it safe?

Kite-flying event claims 13 lives
From correspondents in Lahore
February 07, 2005
THIRTEEN people have been killed and more than 500 injured during an annual kite-flying festival in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

Seven people with severe head injuries died in the city's General Hospital alone, and about 220 people were admitted with a variety of injuries including broken bones, hospital officials said.

The two-day festival of Basant, marking the start of spring, began with thousands of revellers perched on rooftops.

Two teenagers were killed when they fell from a roof, and two more were killed when a car hit them while they were trying to catch a stray kite, police said.

A man was killed by a stray bullet, while another was electrocuted when metal wire used to fly a kite became draped over live electric lines.

Officials said more than 300 injured people were taken to four other hospitals in different parts of the city.

Oh and "gun crime" is down in the UK and Australia.

Go fly a kite.
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