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LUCKNOW, India, July 2, 2024 (AFP) – Nearly 100 people were crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, with many others injured, a senior government official said. A large crowd had gathered near the city of Hathras for a sermon by a popular preacher but a fierce dust storm sparked panic as people were leaving. Many were crushed or trampled, falling on top of each other, with some collapsing […]
BRAZZAVILLE, Nov 21, 2023 (AFP) – Thirty-seven youths were killed in a stampede overnight during an army recruitment drive in a stadium in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, officials said on Tuesday. Last week, the army in the central African nation also known as Congo-Brazzaville, announced it was recruiting 1,500 people aged between 18 and 25. Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso said 37 people had been killed in the “tragedy,” with an […]
SAN SALVADOR, May 22, 2023 (AFP) – El Salvador soccer fans were mourning Sunday after 12 people died and hundreds were injured in a stampede at a stadium, with the country’s president vowing an investigation. Authorities said initial reports pointed to a crush of fans who tried to enter the 35,000-seat Cuscatlan Stadium in the Central American country’s capital San Salvador to watch a game between two local teams, Alianza and FAS. The match was […]
Kampala, Uganda (AFP) At least nine people died, most aged between 10 and 20, in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda’s capital, police said on Sunday. After fireworks outside the Freedom City mall in Kampala, “a stampede ensued, resulting in the instant deaths of five people and injuries to several others,” national police spokesman Luke Owoyesigyire said. Four others died on their way to hospital “largely due to […]
Jakarta, Indonesia | AFP | Photos of FIFA’s president laughing and high-fiving in a football match with local officials weeks after a stadium disaster killed 133 people in Indonesia sparked online fury in the country on Wednesday. More than 40 children were among those killed in the stampede on October 1, one of the deadliest disasters in football history. Police had fired tear gas to quell a pitch invasion after a match in East […]
by Marchio GORBIANO Agence France-Presse MALANG, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s government called on the country’s police Monday to identify and punish whoever was responsible for a stadium stampede that left 125 people dead, as anger mounted over one of the deadliest disasters in the history of football. The tragedy on Saturday night in the city of Malang also saw 323 people injured after officers fired tear gas in a packed stadium to quell a pitch […]
Malang, Indonesia | AFP | by Marchio GORBIANO Anger against police mounted in Indonesia on Monday after at least 125 people were killed in one of the deadliest disasters in the history of football, when officers fired tear gas in a packed stadium, triggering a stampede. The tragedy on Saturday night in the city of Malang also saw 323 people injured. The incident unfolded when fans of home team Arema FC stormed the pitch at […]
Malang, Indonesia (AFP) by Marchio Gorbiano with Dessy Sagita in Jakarta Indonesian police came under mounting criticism Sunday after at least 125 people died in a stampede at a football stadium where officers fired teargas on angry fans invading the pitch. The tragedy on Saturday night in the city of Malang, which also left 323 injured according to police, was one of the world’s deadliest sporting stadium disasters. Arema FC supporters at the Kanjuruhan […]
MONROVIA, Libera (AFP) — A stampede killed at least 29 people at a religious event in the suburbs of the Liberian capital Monrovia, police said on Thursday. The disaster occurred overnight, either late Wednesday or in the early hours of Thursday, local media reported. Police spokesman Moses Carter said the death toll was provisional and “may increase”. Details about the event remain unclear. Local media said it was a Christian prayer gathering — known […]
MERON, Israel (AFP) — A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at least 44 people in northern Israel on Friday, with rescue workers facing chaotic crowds while trying to evacuate the injured. The disaster occurred in Meron at the site of the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Talmudic sage, where mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews flock to mark the Lag BaOmer holiday. Closed last year due to coronavirus […]
by Amir Havasi Agence France Presse KERMAN, Iran (AFP) — A stampede broke out Tuesday at the funeral of a top Iranian general killed in a US drone strike, leaving more than 30 people dead as huge crowds of mourners packed his hometown. The crush in the southeastern city of Kerman came as Iran prepared to bury Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, a hugely popular figure in the Islamic republic. “Unfortunately because of overcrowding […]
by Joel Olatunde AGOI Agence France Presse PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AFP) — Fifteen people were killed in a stampede at an election campaign rally by President Muhammadu Buhari in southern Nigeria, health officials said Wednesday. In a separate incident on the campaign trial, jihadists in the northeast of the country attacked a convoy carrying a powerful state governor, killing four people. The deaths are the latest to overshadow Saturday’s elections, in which Buhari is seeking […]
