Twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said.
The accident occurred at a youth and culture centre in Diffa, the main town of a region of that name that abuts Nigeria and Chad.It hosts 119,000 Nigerian refugees, 109,000 internally-displaced people, and 30,000 Nigeriens who have returned to Nigeria because of instability there, according to UN figures released October.
He had come to the region to visit camps for refugees and the displaced, and had already left the town when the stampede occurred."They were distributing food and money -- 5,000 naira per person," a local resident told AFP, referring to Nigeria's national currency. A local official said he was astonished at the situation."Normally, people who are entitled to the handouts send a representative to Diffa to pick it up. But this time, the refugees themselves decided to come and get it, travelling dozens of kilometres ."
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