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TV network executives could be prosecuted for a deadly stampede at last week’s taping of the game show Wowowee, a government investigation said this week. For its first anniversary episode, the show was offering cars and a house as extra prizes to contestants drawn from the audience. A crowd of 50,000 tried to get into the taping at the Philsports Arena, which has a maximum capacity of 17,000. The 100 guards the ABS-CBN network had brought to provide crowd control were quickly overwhelmed, and 74 people were trampled to death. Hundreds were injured.
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