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Security forces arrest organisers of event, which was attended by about 5,000 people drawn by ‘exciting prizes’.
At least 32 people have been killed in a stampede at a religious festival in Nigeria attended by thousands of young people, a local official said.
The incident occurred on Wednesday at an Islamic high school in Ibadan, the capital of Nigeria’s southwest Oyo State, where up to 5,000 young people and children had reportedly gathered for the event.
Oyo State Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation Dotun Oyelade told journalists that at least 32 people were…
