Tragedy
On January 7, 2008, one person drowned, another missing and 40 others were injured due to electric shocks, when a live cable hit the floating pagoda boat in the fluvial festival at Barangay alauli, Masantol, Pampanga, Philippines in honor of Virgen La Purisima Concepcion.
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Famous quotes containing the word tragedy:
“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
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