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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Twelve children were trampled to death as panicked pupils fled what they thought was a fire in their northern Nigerian school, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
Children aged between 13 and 15 began fleeing their three-story school building in the city of Kaduna on Monday after it filled with smoke coming from a carpentry workshop next door, said Kaduna police spokesman Saad Yahaya.
The children mistakenly believed their building had caught fire. The carpenter was burning trash.
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