LAGOS:
Nigerian police on Sunday raised the whole demise toll from two stampedes at meals distribution centres to 32, because the nation grappled with a spate of lethal crowd crushes at charity occasions.
Twenty-two individuals had been killed on Saturday as individuals queued exterior a centre distributing rice within the southern city of Okija, police mentioned, after beforehand warning “many” had been useless because of the incident.
And on the identical day a separate stampede exterior a church giving meals to the “weak and aged” within the capital Abuja killed at the very least 10 individuals, prompting Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu to clear his schedule within the wake of the dual tragedies.