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SANGJU, South Korea - Kim Byung-sul was badly injured but all he could think of was his wife. She too had fallen under the crush of 20,000 people scrambling for seats at a free pop music concert - and now she was no longer breathing.
"I blew breath into her nose and mouth and pushed her chest," he said from a hospital bed today where he was nursing a broken leg.
His efforts were in vain.
His wife In-shim, 66, was one of 11 people killed in the stampede Monday in Sangju, 165 miles southeast of Seoul. Ninety-eight people were injured.
The concert was a rare treat for the city of 120,000, and Sangju's lack of experience staging such a large event appeared to have played a part in the tragedy. Witnesses said the crowds were made to enter the stadium through a single gate that wasn't completely opened.
TORONTO - An unknown respiratory illness has struck an Ontario nursing home, killing six elderly patients - including two announced Monday - and infecting at least 79 residents, employees and visitors.Toronto public health officials are monitoring 170 people connected to Seven Oaks Home for the Aged in Scarborough, a bedroom community just east of Toronto, including families and children who attend a day-care center in the building. Though Seven Oaks is not under quarantine, no visitors have been allowed for several days.Anxiety over the outbreak has been exacerbated by renewed fears of SARS - severe acute respiratory syndrome - which claimed 44 lives in Toronto from two outbreaks in early 2003.By The Associated Press
