Stampede
Tanzanian police say 45 passed away in stampede at Magufuli tribute
The crush took place when thousands of grieving citizens tried to push their way into a stadium in the city to bid farewell to their leader, whose sudden death...
Aid workers confirmed the account and said about 10 people had been injured.
Government official Kippi Warioba, District Commissioner in the northern town of Moshi, said he feared the number of dead could still rise from the accident, which took place on Saturday afternoon.
Fire brigades said the stampede took place in the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub in the town of Corinaldo.
The casualty figures were confirmed by the director of a hospital in the Malagasy capital Antananarivo, where the Group A match was staged in the 30,000-capacity Mahamasina Stadium.
On Monday, there were major disruptions when the gates to the campus were closed and staff were told to go home while impatient students jumped the locked gates.
Six people were injured during a stampede this morning in which prospective students pushed their way through the security gates at the Capricorn TVET college.
Police say six people were injured after queuing prospective students pushed their way through security gates this morning.
A large number of students arrived on campus earlier on Thursday morning hoping to get the green light to study at the college this year.
The cause of the stampede on a bridge at the city’s central Elphinstone station during the rainstorm was being investigated, a police official at the accident site said.
Stadium management says police confiscated about 3,000 counterfeit tickets that fans had in their possession at the match.
Opposition politicians and government officials gave contrasting tolls of casualties that took place.
Sporadic protests have erupted in Oromiya in the last two years, initially sparked by a land row.
The opposition party in Ethiopia says that the stampede killed at least 50 people.
The deadly crush last year occurred at around midnight on steps up to a riverside walkway.
At least 13 people have been transported to a nearby hospital, one of them a 60-year-old woman.