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FILE PICTURE: Applicants planning to sleep overnite outside University of Johannesburgs Bunting Road campus in Auckland Park for the University applications. Picture: Matthews Baloyi<\/p>\n
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A woman was killed and 17 people were injured in a stampede at the University of Johannesburg’s Auckland Park campus this morning, said Johannesburg emergency services. <\/p>\n
“One female died, 17 have been treated for minor injuries, and will be taken to hospital,” said emergency services spokeswoman Nana Radebe. <\/p>\n
“We received a call at about 7.30am this morning. It is alleged that the stampede occurred just after they opened the gate,” she said. <\/p>\n
A disaster bus was on the scene helping the injured, three of whom were serious, but stable. <\/p>\n
University spokesman Herman Esterhuizen said further details would be released at a press conference at the university at 10am. <\/p>\n
UJ registrar Marie Muller told eNews channel that the incident happened as students queued for last-minute applications to the tertiary institution. <\/p>\n
The university received 5000 applications for new applications on yesterday. <\/p>\n
It was turning away people still outside the campus and trying to get in this morning. <\/p>\n
Netcare911 spokesman Jeff Wicks said the mother of a prospective student sustained severe head and chest trauma. <\/p>\n
“She was intubated and placed on a manual ventilator at the scene and transported by ambulance to the specialist Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic 3\/8 hospital for further care,” Wicks said. <\/p>\n
The university bills itself as one of the “largest, multi-campus, residential universities in South Africa”. <\/p>\n
It is a merger between the former Rand Afrikaans University, the Technikon Witwatersrand and the Soweto and the East Rand campuses of Vista University. <\/p>\n
It has four campuses – Auckland Park Kingsway, Auckland Park Bunting Road, Doornfontein and Soweto. <\/p>\n
It also has a four-language policy of English, isiZulu, Afrikaans and Sesotho sa Leboa. <\/p>\n
Its students come from over 50 countries in Africa and around the world. – Sapa <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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