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Soccer Disaster

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports on the disastrous soccer game in South Africa yesterday. Tens of thousands of fans over-packed a stadium in Johannesburg. Forty-three people died and some 250 were injured when a section of bleachers collapsed and the crowd stampeded to get away.

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