Publication Date:
Tue, 2011-02-22 03:26
Sadio Gassame said the stampede occurred at Bamako’s Modibo Keita Stadium during an event on Monday marking the Muslim holy period of Maouloud. The accident took place at the end of the ceremony as people were trying to leave and the crowd surged against a metal barrier.
Anguished families gathered outside the capital’s Gabriel Toure Hospital, waiting for news as doctors were preparing to post a list of the dead.
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