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Events on Thursday 5 June 1941 1
1941Chongqing air-raid shelter disasterHundreds suffocate during a Japanese bombing raidDuring a Japanese air raid on the wartime capital Chongqing, a stampede and a failed ventilation system in a crowded tunnel shelter killed large numbers of civilians. Estimates of the dead range from about 1,000 to several thousand.