The demonstrators said they were angered by a reported remark by a state minister that such disasters were common in India

The demonstrators said they were angered by a reported remark by a state minister that such disasters were common in India. Jagdish Nehra, the minister, later denied he made the remark.. It seems a ridiculously long name for so small a girl: Tumuhawenimana. But there it is marked on a red plastic bracelet around her wrist She is only six years old but she seems older than that. The other exit was locked.Police were investigating Kewal Kishan Dhamija, the hall's owner, on suspicion of criminal negligence. Mr Dhamija acknowledged the hall was built without proper permits, the Statesman newspaper reported yesterday.Police said shoddy wiring at the hall may have caused the fire.

Some 250 people were injured.Residents were outraged by the scant facilities at the Civil Hospital in Dabwali, the only government-run hospital in the town 125 miles (200kms) north-east of New Delhi. Doctors had to redirect hundreds of injured people to hospitals in neighbouring towns."Is this a way to run a hospital?" asked Suresh Singh, a protester. Mr Singh said the hospital had only 10 beds for a population of 50,000. The hospital refused to comment.The blaze had spread swiftly through the plywood building. Saturday's fire destroyed a community hall, where schoolchildren were putting on an end-of-term event for a crowd of about 1,000, including their parents. Authorities said 538 people were confirmed killed, but the toll could rise to 600.

Many were killed by the stampede towards the only working exit. Dabwali, India (AP) - Outraged at the poor medical treatment given survivors of a weekend fire that killed more than 500, thousands of protesters yesterday tore down a hospital wall and blocked police from removing bodies. We will call those Westerners over and make an agreement that is not exploitative."It is hard to tell where Mr Erbakan's rhetoric ends and his real intentions begin, but shivers go down the spines of the Turkish establishment on hearing his ideas about dropping out of Nato and rejecting all talk of compromise on Cyprus.As neighbouring Tehran radio cheered a "change of orientation towards the Islamic world", Mr Erbakan's first proposal on election night was to freeze foreign currency in the Central Bank because it had signed futures contracts amounting to about a quarter of more than $10bn of reserves.Seeing weeks, if not months, of such political instability ahead, the Turkish lira slumped against the dollar and the stock market dropped sharply.. He became deputy prime minister three times for a total of more than three years. Although there is now a hard-working, modernist wing in Mr Erbakan's Welfare Party, which enabled it to capture many votes that used to go to the left wing, he himself appears to have changed few of his ideas about taking taxes in kind, a banking system without interest rates and the imminent advent of an Islamic currency in a Muslim commonwealth. Asked what he would do with a recent Customs Union agreement with Europe from 1 January, the culmination of a 32-year-process that he has vowed to tear up, Mr Erbakan said: "We want to develop relations with everyone, but that agreement was one-sided. Istanbul - Having found a niche defending the Islamic vote with two parties in 1970s, Necmettin Erbakan thrived on brinkmanship in the terrible Turkish political morass of that decade, writes Hugh Pope.

In a calm election with a big turnout of 85 per cent, the Kurdish nationalist left-wing party HADEP won only 4.17 per cent of the vote, showing that many Kurds, perhaps 20 per cent of the population, prefer mainstream parties.The Turkish nationalist "Grey Wolves" of the National Action Party also fell short of the threshold, polling just 8.18 per cent."We must find a workable government, without prejudice," said Mr Yilmaz yesterday. He did not rule out talks with Mrs Ciller and he said he would talk with Mr Erbakan's Islamists "if they changed their philosophy."Mr Erbakan, however, clearly hopes that as prime minister-designate it is he who will be persuading conservatives in Mr Yilmaz's party to join him.. Mrs Ciller did unexpectedly well, winning about 135 seats with 19.20 per cent of the vote. Mr Yilmaz won 132 seats with 19.66 per cent.But that does not make 276 votes, even if Mr Yilmaz can overcome years of animosity with "that woman" Mrs Ciller.They would have to form a government with one or both of the left-wing parties, former premier Bulent Ecevit's Democratic Left Party, which won 75 seats with 14.65 per cent of the vote, or Deniz Baykal's Republican People's Party, which won 50 seats with 10.71 per cent.Others among the 12 competing parties failed to surmount a 10 per cent national threshold.