The stampede at the event involved people who came to the church’s annual ‘Shop for Free’ charity program
A stampede Saturday 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.
Such events are common in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, where more than 80 million people live in poverty, according to government statistics. Godwin Tepikor from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said first responders were able to evacuate the bodies of those trampled to death and bring them to the morgue. Security forces cordoned off the area.
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