Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children.

The victims collapsed in crowd surges as people grew desperate for Christmas church food handouts during the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.View on euronews

The death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events in Nigeria has increased from 13 to 32, police said Sunday.

Nigerian police say the death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events has increased from 13 to 32.

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

In 2022, a stampede at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured, police told The Associated Press, a shocking development at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy. One witness said the dead included a pregnant woman and many children.