Around 66 people were killed during a stampede at the ULTRA in Pasig City this morning, radio and television reports say.
The crowd reportedly gathered there to attend the anniversary celebration of ABS-CBN’s noontime show Wowowee.
Initial reports say the victims were mostly elderly women. It is not yet clear why the stampede occurred.
5 replies on “66 Killed in Wowowee Stampede”
“SCENE OF FEBRUARY 2006”
I got this idea from ‘Scenes of July 1830’:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lar7_cogniet_001z.jpg
It is a clear manifestation that the socio-economic viewpoint of ‘EDSA’ is a FAILURE
THE MOST APPRORIATE TITLE SHOULD BE: “Edsa, Twenty years after”
Stampede at Manila Stadium Kills 88
By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer
MANILA, Philippines – At least 88 people were trampled to death early Saturday in a stampede outside a stadium where thousands of people had gathered to watch a popular TV game show, the Philippine Red Cross said.
Red Cross chairman Sen. Richard Gordon said 280 others were hospitalized with injuries.
About 30,000 people were waiting to get inside the stadium for the program “Wowowee,” said Vicente Eusebio, the mayor of Pasig, the Manila suburb where the stampede occurred.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060204/ap_on_re_as/philippines_stampede
their should enough policemen to guide the people
i hope this tragedy should be a lesson to be learned by our people that they should not rely on luck or in any instant fortunes… its one of the manifestations that people rely dependently or in “the kapit sa patalim” way of thinking…
[…] The Philippines has had its own share of citizen journalism courtesy of bloggers. Remember when the ‘Wowowee Stampede at ULTRA‘ were covered and liveblogged by not just my self but by other Pinoy bloggers as well like Vespinoy , Piercing Pens among others. There’s even the flurry of blog posts covering and pondering the President suffering from diarrhea by RG Cruz and Chickenmafia and again there’s more. […]