29 pupils taking high school exams killed in C Africa crush
Just over 5,300 students were sitting the second day of the baccalaureat exams at the time of the explosion early Wednesday afternoon in Bangui, the capital of the deeply poor nation. In the ensuing panic, supervisors and students tried to flee, some jumping from the first floor of the school. The injured were transported by ambulance, on the back of pickup trucks or by motorbike taxi, AFP journalists saw. 'I would like to express my solidarity and compassion to the parents of the deceased candidates, to the educational staff, to the students,' President Faustin Archange Touadera said in a video published on his party's Facebook page.
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