Over 100 children hurt in China primary school stampede

BEIJING - About 100 school children were injured in a primary school stampede in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday, local authorities have said.

The injured students were immediately taken to a local hospital. No deaths have been reported.

Students of Aksu No. 5 Primary School were heading downstairs to the playground for after-class exercise when some of them fell and triggered the stampede, Xinhua news agency quoted a spokesman with the municipal publicity department, as saying.

The school in Aksu has more than 1,800 students, the report said. (ANI)