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Several killed in Nigeria in crowd stampedes

Nigeria President and Chairman of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Bola Ahmed Tinubu looks on during the ECOWAS 66th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of States and Government in Abuja on December 15, 2024.[Photo, AFP]

Two crowd stampedes, one in the capital Abuja and another in the southern town of Okija, have killed "many" people, the Nigerian president's office said Saturday, days after a similar tragedy.

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