No fewer than five persons were feared dead in a
stampede while waiting to collect Zakat(gifts) in
Kaduna on Monday.

Scores, according to eyewitness, fainted while
waiting to receive Zakat from a businessman who
deals in dairy products in the state.
He was sharing the gifts at the Kabala Constain
area in Kaduna North Local Government Area of the
state.

However, the Kaduna Police Command’s Public
Relations Officer, Abdullahi Zubairu, said nobody
died during the stampede.

He also said the command deployed its personnel
in the venue, adding that the team did not report
any death.

But an eyewitness at the venue, which was
besieged by able and physically challenged
persons in their hundreds, said the people became
uncontrollable, leading to a stampede.
The eyewitness explained that the police were
invited to the scene when it the situation started
degenerating.

One Bala Mohammed, a cripple, said when they
arrived at the venue, his set was ordered to queue
on a separate line while the able and women also
have their own line.

Bala added that when the businessman arrived to
give out the gifts, the women line was first chosen
and it was in the process that the stampede
occurred, which led to the death of five persons.
Another eyewitness, Zanaib Mohammed, told
journalists that she was informed by her sister that
there would be sharing of gifts at Tyosco Yoghurt,
but lamented that her sister was one of the victims
of the stampede.

As of the time of filling this report, the house was
besieged by people, who wanted to have their own
share of the gifts, while the police detachment was
on the ground to maintain law and order.

http://www.punchng.com/news/ramadan-gifts-five-feared-dead-during-stampede-in-kaduna/

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k

What does it take for people to behave in an orderly manner. This same scenario happened last year. Na Wa oo

Ok

The life expectancy of a northerner should be 25.

Goats

If I didn't see MalcolmIX here and Fulanimafia I know they are among the death.