At least five women and children died on Saturday in a stampede in Borno state, it has been reported.
The victims reportedly died when cash and clothes were handed out to thousands of displaced people in Borno, militia and local people told the Agence France Presse, AFP.
A large crowd surged forward for the government aid distribution and people were trampled under foot in the town of Gamboru, near the Cameroon border, a region hit by jihadist violence.
“Five dead bodies, four women and a little girl, were brought to the hospital along with seven injured,”
a medical source said at the hospital.
a medical source said at the hospital.
“We learned that (other) bodies were identified and claimed by relations from the scene,”