Two students killed, 23 injured in Nigeria food stampede

At least two students died and 23 were hurt in a crush in central Nigeria on Friday as a huge crowd gathered for food handouts at a university, a spokesman told AFP. Thousands of students at Nasarawa State University, Keffi, surged and broke through gates where the state government was distributing bags of rice. "There was a stampede this morning at the rice distribution point within the university where the state governor was to distribute 4,000 bags of rice to students,"by phone.

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