Crowd crush at Guinea football match causes casualties, PM confirms
02-Dec-2024 01:48 PM 7318
Conakry (Guinea), Dec 2 (Reporter) A crowd crush at a football match in Guinea has caused multiple casualties, the country’s prime minister has confirmed, with one social media video showing fans scrambling to get out of a packed stadium. “The government deplores the incidents that marred the football match between the Labé and Nzérékoré teams this afternoon in Nzérékoré,” Prime Minister Bah Oury said in a statement, according to a CNN report. “Victims were recorded during the crowd crush” he added. “The government is monitoring the development of the situation and reiterates its call for calm so that hospital services are not hindered in providing first aid to the injured,” Oury said, with city authorities ordered to restore “social tranquality.” Oury’s statement did not give an account of what happened inside the stadium, but he said a more detailed report would follow. Video geolocated by CNN showed fans scaling a wall as they tried to flee the stadium in Nzérékoré in southeastern Guinea. It is not currently clear how many casualties there are...////...
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