Niger stampede kills 20 at handout for refugees
A stampede has occurred at a youth and culture centre in Diffa, the main town of a region of the same name that hosts more than a quarter of a million refugees and internally displaced people, in southeast Niger. – EPA pic, February 18, 2020.
FIFTEN women and five children were trampled to death yesterday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, a regional governor said. The accident occurred at a youth and culture centre in Diffa, the main town of a region of the same name that hosts more than a quarter of a million refugees and internally displaced people.
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