Faced with skyrocketing food prices, many Nigerians have been forced to queue for charity handouts for hours just to get enough to eat.
A woman moves past a monument carrying donations, hours after 10 people were crushed during a stampede at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Maitama . Picture: Next24online / NurPhoto / via AFP Nigeria n police on Sunday raised the total death toll from two stampedes at food distribution centres to 32, as the country grappled with a spate of deadly crowd crushes at charity events.
The stampedes outside food distribution centres come as Africa's most populous country grapples with its worst economic crisis in a generation, with inflation soaring to 34.6 percent in November. Four children were among the 10 killed in the Abuja stampede outside the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Maitama district, police said."In a season of joy and celebration, we grieve with fellow citizens mourning the painful losses of their loved ones. Our prayers of divine comfort and healing are with them," said President Tinubu.
"It is becoming too rampant, and it shows that precautionary measures are not being taken before the distribution of these items," Ezekiel added. Police have already arrested eight people involved in organising the school funfair at Ibadan, according to a spokesman for the force in Oyo State.
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