Reuters
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At least 9 folks, together with a 10-year-old boy, suffocated to dying as crowds speeding to see a New Year’s firework show received caught in a slim hall in a shopping center close to Uganda’s capital, police stated.
People began pushing via a passage within the Freedom City Mall simply after clocks struck midnight, the drive stated.
“Very many people got stuck as they were entering in large numbers to see fireworks. In doing so, many people suffocated to death. So far nine people are confirmed dead,” the police assertion learn.
People had been celebrating the New Year on the mall which is on a freeway linking Kampala to Entebbe airport.
2023-01-01 08:59:50 Nine suffocate to dying in Uganda New Year’s firework crush
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