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20 killed in Niger in food distribution stampede
NIAMEY, Feb 17, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Twenty people, many of them women and
children, were killed on Monday in a stampede at a distribution of food and
money for displaced people in Diffa, southeast Niger, sources said.
“We have a provisional toll of 20 dead,” a medical source said. Aid
workers confirmed the account and said about 10 people had been injured.
BSS/AFP/ARS/2101 hrs