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Niger stampede kills 20
Agence France-Presse . Niamey, Niger | Updated at 02:51am on February 18, 2020
Twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast...
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20 killed in Tanzania church stampede
Agence France-Presse . Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Updated at 04:40pm on February 02, 2020
Twenty people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the country, officials said on Sunday....
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50 dead in stampede at Iran general’s funeral
Agence France-Presse . Kerman, Iran | Updated at 04:49pm on January 07, 2020
Dozens of people were crushed to death after a stampede broke out Tuesday during a massive funeral procession for a top Iranian general assassinated in...
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Three jailed over Algeria concert stampede deaths
Agence France-Presse . Algiers | Updated at 10:07pm on November 29, 2019
An Algerian court has handed three people prison sentences for “negligence” over a deadly stampede at an August concert, a judicial source told AFP Thursday....
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At least 31 die in stampede at Ashura rituals in Iraq's Kerbala
Reuters. Bagdad | Updated at 08:35pm on September 10, 2019
At least 31 people died and another 100 were wounded on Tuesday during the Shi'ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in Iraq's southern holy city...
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India stampede leaves 14 dead
Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 12:00am on June 24, 2019
At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured in a stampede at a religious gathering in northern India Sunday, after strong winds caused a...