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4 female students were killed and 50 students were injured in a stampede after a tear gas canister exploded during a university gathering in Bolivia today.
"The students gathered to elect new leaders of the student body at the school in the mountainous city of Potosi, south of the capital, La Paz, and in the middle of the gathering a tear gas bomb was detonated, causing a stampede and casualties," Pedro Lopez, president of Thomas Frias University, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. “.
He explained that "the stampede led to chaos and ran over many students, which resulted in the killing of 4 female students and the injury of 50 male students with varying degrees of injuries."
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