Monrovia: A stampede at a Christian prayer gathering in Liberia’s capital Monrovia has killed at least 29 people including 11 children and a pregnant woman. The stampede erupted when a gang of thugs armed with knives attacked some of the people attending the ceremony. Police has arrested one person.
A stampede at a similar prayer event in the centre of Liberia in November 2021 killed two infants, and hospitalized several others.
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Liberia, Africa’s oldest republic, is an impoverished country that is still recovering after back-to-back civil wars between 1989-2003, as well as the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic.
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