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At least one dead, 37 injured in Madagascar stadium stampede: hospital

At least one person was killed and 37 were injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Madagascar´s capital Antananarivo, hospital sources said Sunday.

By AFP
September 09, 2018

Antananarivo -At least one person was killed and 37 were injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Madagascar´s capital Antananarivo, hospital sources said Sunday.

The stampede occurred at the entrance to the venue just before kickoff between Madagascar and Senegal, the city´s Hrja Hospital spokesman Oliva Alain Rakoto told reporters, adding that "for the moment" the accident toll is one dead and 37 injured.