Twenty-two people were killed as people queued outside a centre distributing rice in the southern town of Okija, police said, after previously warning "many" were dead as a result of the incident.



Death toll rises to 32 in Nigeria's deadly food distribution stampedes

Nigerian police on Sunday raised the total death toll from two stampedes at food distribution centres to 32, as the country grappled with a spate of deadly crowd crushes at charity events.

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Death toll rises to 32 in Nigeria's deadly food distribution stampedes

Death toll rises to 32 in Nigeria's deadly food distribution stampedes