41 killed in Yemen stampede

At least 41 people were killed and more than 50 injured – most of them schoolchildren and teenagers – in a stampede during a pre-election campaign rally for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern province of Ibb, medical and security officials said today.

The stampede occurred in a small stadium in Ibb, 120 miles south of the capital San‘a, where Saleh was addressing a group of people.