WEEK IN PHOTOS: Raging Blaze, Stranded Dolphins, More

WEEK IN PHOTOS: Raging Blaze, Stranded Dolphins, More
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Changnyeong, South Korea, February 9, 2009--At least four were killed and ten injured after a fire, set as part of the Great Full Moon Fire Festival, got out of control, causing a stampede.

For the Jeongwol Daeboreum festival, which celebrates the first full moon of the Lunar New Year, officials deliberately set fire to dried pampas grass on a mountainside. But a gust of wind sent the flames up toward the onlookers, forcing them to flee.

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