Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children.

Ten people, including four children, were killed in a stampede in Nigeria’s capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food and clothing items distributed by a local church at an annual Christmas event,

Nigerian police say the death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events has increased from 13 to 32.

Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children. Families are struggling during the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

In 2022, a stampede at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured, police told The Associated Press, a shocking development at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy. One witness said the dead included a pregnant woman and many children.