Crowds poured into Christmas events... "67 crushed to death in three days" [Now News]

Local media reported that at least 67 people were killed in a three-day series of crush accidents as people flocked to events to distribute relief supplies in Nigeria ahead of Christmas.

Nigerian police said 10 people, including four children, were killed at a Christmas event at a cathedral in downtown Abuja on the morning of the 21st local time.

On the same day, a charity Christmas event in the southeastern town of Okiza also killed 22 people.

On the 19th, the death toll reached 67 in three days, with 35 people crushed to death at a high school in Bashorun village, Oyu state, in the southwestern part of the country.All of the

-year-old accidents included many women and children, and were mutilated while trying to receive food and clothes to distribute, local police said.President

Bola Tinubu said in a condolence statement the day before that he had cancelled all official events scheduled for the weekend.Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer with a population of 220 million

, is Africa's largest oil producer, but it has hardly escaped its chronic economic slump.

기자|정유신
AI Anchor|Y-GO
Caption editing | Yoon Hyun-kyung

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