What seems to be a way of showing charity to the poor in the Ramadan season as it is normally done in the Northern part of the country by the wealthy people of the north ,have turned out to be a tragedy event that have cause not less that six lives of people and several others hospitalized.
Inline of the spirit of Ramadan, the business men in Zamfara ,had offered to show love to their brothers by way of distributing food items to the less privileges on Monday ,in the house of one the business man whose name could not be published for security reasons.
This time around, he had planned to distribute food items and when the people heard of it, they trooped to his house and this led to an overflowing crowd.|’’ It was gathered that the presence of thousands of people in the house made it difficult for those assigned to distribute the food items to control the crowd.
At a stage, the crowd pulled down the main gate,thereby allowing manymore people access to the house. In the stampede that ensued, six people died on the spot and many others sustained injuries.
The commissioner of police Mr Usman Akila Gwary, who confirmed the story, maintained the number of casualties and also confirmed that normalcy have returned to the area.
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