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Published: May 9, 2022
Officials said a tear gas bomb exploded during a university gathering in Bolivia causing a stampede that killed four students and injured 50 others on Monday.
Pedro Lopez, president of Thomas Frias University, told Radio Panamericana that students had gathered to elect new leaders for the student body at the school in the mountainous city of Potosi, about 420 kilometers (260 miles) south of the capital La Paz. He said, "In the middle of the gathering, a tear gas bomb was detonated, causing panic and a stampede in which many students were trampled."
Colonel Limberth Choc, commander of Potosi police, told government television that the four dead were girls.
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