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14 WORLD and NATION
The Battalion Thursday, February 14,1991
Panic claims 41 lives in Mexico
‘Avalanche of people’ crushes
Ash Wednesday worshipers
CHALMA, Mexico (AP) — At
least 41 Ash Wednesday worshipers
suffocated or were crushed to death
when a tightly packed crowd began
pushing and shoving in a church
famed for a religious icon believed
to have miraculous powers.
Thirteen of the victims were chil
dren. At least 21 people were hospi
talized with injuries suffered in the
panicked crush of about 3,500 peo
ple at the Sanctuary of Our Lord of
Chalma, 40 miles south of Mexico
City, officials said.
The confusion and stampede ap
parently started when street vendors
inadvertently blocked a narrow alley
leading to the church, according to a
statement by the state of Mexico gov
ernment in Toluca.
People coming in and out of the
church became frantic at the conges
tion and began pushing and shov
ing, the statement said.
“There was an avalanche of peo-
le,” said Maria Velazquez, who lost
er 9-year-old niece in the tragedy.
“We were leaving and those that
were coming in squashed the people
leaving.”
“Some people were trampled and
others suffocated inside the church
in the atrium,” state spokesman Car
los Mota said.
Mota authorities had trouble find
ing enough ambulances to carry the
injured to hospitals.
Hours after the disaster, people
continued to pour out of the church.
A file of young men carried 40
empty coffins through the narrow
streets to a school, where the bodies
were laid out in a courtyard under
blankets and shawls.
Identification tags scrawled on
notebook paper were pinned on the
bodies.
“I came on a bus. I will be going
back with the hearse,” said Juana Pa
tina, 56, whose sister-in-law Perfecta
Rojas, 40, was killed.
Gov. Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza im
mediately gave orders for a second
street to be constructed to the hilltop
sanctuary, which draws pilgrims
from all over the nation wno pray
before an icon of the crucified Jesus.
Some believers say prayer before
the icon can cure the sick and lead to
other miracles.
Candida Arenillas, 51, said she
visited the shrine from a village in
neighboring Puebla state, with an
older relative and an 11-year-old
child. The older woman was killed in
the crush, she said.
When Spanish priests arrived in
Chalma in 1537, they found Indians
worshiping the god T'ezcatlipocaina
cave. A band of Roman Catholic her
mits moved into the cave in 1623
and built a chapel nearby. Such
usurpation of pagan rituals by ihe
church was common in colonial
Mexico.
Work on a larger sanctuary began
in 1680. It has been rebuilt and ren
ovated several times since.
Allied bombs kill civilians, refugees;
Iraq maintains communications links
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Allied warplanes,
in a pinpoint bombing that sent shock waves far beyond
Iraq, destroyed an underground shelter in Baghdad on
Wednesday, and officials there said 500 civilians were
killed. The United States called it a military command
center, not a bomb shelter.
By nightfall, 14 hours after the pre-dawn attack,
crews were still pulling charred bodies, some of them
children, from the demolished structure, an Associated
Press correspondent reported from Baghdad. Dis
traught relatives crowded the smoke-filled streets.
“We don’t know why civilians were at that location,”
said Marlin Fitzwater, President Bush’s spokesman.
American officials blamed Iraq’s leadership for the tra
gedy, saying it had put civilians “in harm’s way.”
The AP correspondent, Dilip Ganguly, inspected the
ruins with other journalists and said he saw no obvious
sign of a military presence.
Another new report of civilian casualties came from
Jordanian refugees who reached their homeland
Wednesday from Kuwait. They said allied warplanes
last Saturday attacked their bus as it left Kuwait, killing
30 of their countrymen.
At U.N. headquarters in New York, where Third
World diplomats sought an open Security Council dis
cussion on the conflict, an African delegate, Bagbeni
Nzengeya of Zaire, said the civilian deaths “will make
everyone think again about the scope of the war.”
Iraq’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, will fly to Moscow
this weekend to meet with Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev, a Soviet spokesman said. A Soviet envoy’s
talks Tuesday with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in
Baghdad “give cause for hope,” the spokesman said,
without elaboration.
The deadly Baghdad air strike was among 2,800 sor
ties mounted by Operation Desert Storm on Wednes
day in favorably clear skies.
About one-third of the missions were directed at tar
gets in southern Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, aimed
at “softening up” the dug-in positions of Iraqi troops
before the expected ground offensive by the U.S.-led
alliance.
Saudi officers reported that one of their attack
planes, an F-5, was lost on a bombing mission against
ground forces in Iraq, and the pilot was listed as miss
ing.
U.S. officers told reporters in Riyadh, the Saudi capi
tal, that the Iraqi military had managed to maintain
communications links, despite more than three weeks
of nonstop bombing. It was clear U.S. strategists were
anxious to knock out more of these command-and-con-
trol networks.
The night’s raids on Baghdad, described by residents
as among the worst of the air war, began about 8 p.m.
Tuesday and lasted 12 hours, Ganguly reported. Tele
communications centers in two Baghdad districts were
among the sites bombed.
At about 4 a.m., it was the turn of the 40-foot-deep
underground structure in al-Amerieh, a middle-class
neighborhood.
Economists
re-evaluate
recession
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re
tail sales fell 0.9 percent in Jan
uary after an even worse Decem-
ber performance, the
government said Wednesday, in a
report analysts took as an omi
nous sign the recession could be
longer and deeper than expected.
The Commerce Department
said retail sales totaled a season
ally adjusted $148.2 billion, down
from $149.5 billion in December
when sales dropped 1.5 percent
— even worse than the 0.4 per
cent first reported last month.
It was the first back-to-back
monthly decline in seven months.
At the same time, January sales
were down 1.4 percent from
those of the same month of 1990,
the first year-over-year decline in
29‘A years.
Some economists had said the
recession would be short and
mild, lasting just two quarters, but
many now are having misgivings.
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