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9:19 CAT | 06 Mar 2017
Daily Mail / 35,000 people tried to enter a sports complex to get food parcels on Monday
At least eight people were killed and 28 others injured in a stampede in Zambia’s capital Lusaka on Monday as thousands of poor people struggled to claim food handouts, police said.
Police have opened an inquiry into the deadly crush after 35,000 people tried to enter a sports complex where the Church of Christ was giving out food parcels.
The parcels included a head of cabbage, sugar, soya pieces and cooking oil.
A police spokesman said: ‘We have since dispersed the gathering and an inquiry into the matter has been instituted.’
One woman, six men and one boy died at the stampede, a police spokesman told the Lusaka Times.
They also said five died at the scene, while the other three died in hospital.
60 per cent of people in Zambia live below the poverty line and 42 percent are considered to be extremely poor, the World Bank says.
Source: Daily Mail
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