A stampede outside a centre distributing rice to citizens in southern Nigeria killed 22 people, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a spate of such incidents in Africa's most populous country.
Authorities in Nigeria say ten people, including four children, have been killed in a stampede in the capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food items distributed by a local church at a Ch ...
Nigeria raised the death toll from a stampede outside a centre handing out rice to citizens in the southern town of Okija to 22, police said on Sunday.
Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa ... Three days later at least seven died in a stampede in the northern Bauchi state when people gathered to collect handouts of 5,000 naira promised ...