Several children have been ended in a crush at a funequitable in the south-west Nigerian city of Iterriblean, with many others hospitalised.
The exact number of casualties is not clear.
The event was upgraspd as free entry and drew a huge crowd but so many people turned up that there was a crush as they struggled to achieve entry.
Residents shelp that over 5,000 children had assembleed at the venue and the crush occurred when the main organisers get tod to begin the event.
The sequence of events directing to the crush has not been disshutd.
The Oyo state rulement shelp victims had been getn to hospitals atraverse Iterriblean for treatment after the crush at the Islamic High School Basorun.
It shelp there had been “multiple loss of inhabits and injuries”.
The authorities have directd parents who are worryed about the whereabouts of their children to verify at the city’s hospitals.
