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The death toll in a tragic stampede during an almsgiving programme in Bauchi over the weekend has risen to seven.
According to police authorities in the state through its spokesperson Ahmed Wakilin , Six of the victims were pronounced dead at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital while one died at home.
The incident happened on Sunday at Shafa Holdings Company Plc along Jos Road in the Bauchi metropolis where many residents had gathered to receive N10,000 each as alms for the poor which was generously provided by a philanthropist. However there was chaos during the event, which resulted to a stampede.
The Governor of Nasarawa state Governor Abdullahi Sule has announced that the deaths of two students of the Nasarawa State University during a stampede while palliative was looted in the school has nothing to do with negligence on the part of the government. Recall that the governor had reportedly ordered the distribution of two 7.5 kg bags of rice and N5,000 to each student of the state university in Keffi, […]
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