(3 Dec 2024)
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N’zerekoré, Guinea – 2 December 2024
1.Various of civil protection agent delivering victims’ bodies to their relatives
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Jules Koevogui, a victim’s father: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT; PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 3++
“Someone asked me to come to the morgue. I asked him what had happened. He told me to come. When I got there, I saw my daughter’s body lying (on the floor). I was told she was at the stadium. As I had seen other people removing the bodies of their loved ones, I too asked if I could remove my daughter’s body, and they said yes and handed the body over to me in front of the people here.”
3. Exterior of morgue
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Maikan Fofana, a victim of the soccer stadium stampede: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
“The police completely shocked us yesterday, because when we started to leave the stadium (after the clash began), they (the police) blocked the exit with their cars. So, we who had come first couldn’t get out and those who came after us, they pushed us to get out and finally we fell and those who were behind us stepped on us. When I got to the hospital, I was unconscious.”
5. People carrying body in coffin
STORYLINE:
At a hospital in N’zerekoré, Guinea, relatives of victims arrived Monday to take the bodies of their loved ones who died in the fatal stampede at a soccer stadium last Sunday.
Jules Koevogui, a resident of N’zerekoré, was called by the town hospital to go to the morgue to identify the body of his daughter. He is still in shock. “Someone asked me to come to the morgue. I asked him what had happened. He told me to come. When I got there, I saw my daughter’s body lying (on the floor). I was told she was at the stadium. As I had seen other people removing the bodies of their loved ones, I too asked if I could remove my daughter’s body, and they said yes and handed the body over to me in front of the people here”, he said.
At a soccer game in Guinea, chaos erupted after fans protested a referee’s call and thousands of panicked spectators tried to flee the stadium, leaving at least 56 people dead in the West African nation, officials and witnesses said Monday.
Amid the confusion, security forces used tear gas, local news website Media Guinea reported. Many of the dead were crushed as they tried to escape through the stadium gates.
“The police completely shocked us yesterday, because when we started to leave the stadium (after the clash began), they (the police) blocked the exit with their cars. So, we who had come first couldn’t get out and those who came after us, they pushed us to get out and finally we fell and those who were behind us stepped on us. When I got to the hospital, I was unconscious”, said Maikan Fofana, a victim of the soccer stadium stampede.
Between 20,000 and 30,000 people were present at the Third of April stadium to watch the local Labe and Nzerekore teams compete in the final of the first national tournament honouring military leader Mamadi Doumbouya.
Nzerekore, a city of about 200,000 that was at a standstill as soldiers guarded the hospital where victims were being treated. Most shops were closed.
Authorities are trying to establish who was responsible, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said on national television.
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