What the records say
- When
- 2014
- Kind
- Crowd crush
- Coordinates
- 18.93° S, 29.81° E
- Description
- 2014 human crush in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the town its title names, Kwekwe.
Kwekwe stadium stampede
2014 human crush in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe
On 21 November 2014, a stampede occurred at Mbizo Stadium in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, killing 11 and injuring 40 people. Reuters reported that around 30,000 people attended a religious service officiated by Walter Magaya. After the service, the crowd left toward a single exit in a stampede, killing four immediately; seven others were pronounced dead at hospital.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A stampede in Kwekwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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