15 dead in Mali mosque stampede
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A stampede at the main mosque in Mali's northwestern city of Timbuktu left at least 15 people crushed to death and many more injured, officials and witnesses said on Friday.
"People were circling the mosque, a ritual at each Mouloud (the observance of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed) and there was a huge crowd built up," one of the witnesses, Mohamed Bandjougou, said of the accident late Thursday. (AFP)
