

In July, 58 worshipers, seeking divine protection on an
astrologically unlucky day, were crushed to death by other
stampeding worshipers at two Hindu shrines in the cities of
Haridwar and Ujjain, India.

And in August, a 9-year-old boy was crushed to death when
a granite tombstone fell over on him at a Bible school
in Summerville, Ga.

Also in August, according to police in New Orleans, Melvin
Hitchens, 66, who had been reading the Bible on his front porch,
put it down, fetched his gun, and shot to death a neighbor
woman with whom he had been feuding about the cleanliness of
their yards.

[Tuscaloosa News-AP, 7-16-96]
[Chattanooga Times-AP, 8-8-96]
[Dallas Morning News-AP, 8-5-96]


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