Bulgaria Declares 2 Days of National Mourning for Patriarch Neophyte
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Council of Ministers have unveiled the schedule for the funeral proceedings of Patriarch Neophyte, who passed away on Wednesday evening
Tanzanian police say 45 people died during a stampede in Dar-es-Salaam as mourners paid their last respects to the late President John Magufuli.
The stampede took place when thousands of grieving citizens tried to push their way into a stadium in the city to bid farewell to their leader, whose sudden death after a mysterious absence was announced on March 17.
“There were a lot of people who wanted to get in the stadium, and some were not patient. They tried to force their way in and that resulted in a stampede. Forty-five died in the accident,” Dar-es-Salaam regional police commander Lazaro Mambosasa told the AFP news agency on Monday, 29 March.
Five of the deceased were from the same family, Mambosasa said. A woman and four children were earlier reported crushed in the accident at Uhuru Stadium, although the true toll of the stampede was not announced at the time.
Mambosasa said tens of people were also injured but most had been released from the hospital.
Magufuli’s body was transported to the major cities of Dar-es-Salaam, Dodoma, Zanzibar, Mwanza and Geita, before being finally laid to rest in his ancestral village of Chato in the country’s northwest on March 26.
Tens of thousands came out to pay their respects, lining roads, weeping and running alongside the coffin as a military motorcade moved through the cities.
The stampede took place on the second day of tributes at Uhuru Stadium in Dar-es-Salaam, when the public was allowed in to pay their respects.
Magufuli died at the age of 61 from what authorities say was a heart condition, after a mysterious absence of almost three weeks, and questions remain over the true cause of his death, which the opposition says was from Covid-19.
His deputy Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as the country’s first female president and led the ceremonies bidding him farewell.
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