Thursday, March 15, 2012

[ METRO BRIEFS ]

After parade, 200 lost kids found

Thousands of people packing Washington Park after the 74th annualBud Billiken back-to-school parade sparked a wave of injuries andmissing-children cases on Saturday. More than 200 children wereseparated from their parents during a post-parade concert, which hadto be stopped because a fence collapsed and firefighters were calledin to take 45 people to hospitals for heat-related and otherinjuries, including bloody noses, shortness of breath, dehydrationand a fractured ankle. While none of those injuries was life-threatening, as many as 50 children--the youngest being 2 months and8 months old--still were separated from their parents shortly …

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