Yemen stampede during charity distribution kills 85

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A crowd apparently spooked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid.

Hundreds of people in the poverty-hit country had gathered at a school in capital Sanaa to receive cash handouts of 5,000 Yemeni Rials . Video broadcast by Al Masirah TV channel showed a cluster of bodies packed together, with people climbing on top of each other to try to make their way through. Footage on Al Masirah TV showed corpses strewn across the complex, which was littered with sandals and scraps of clothes after the stampede was cleared.A Huthi security official said three people had been detained on suspicion of involvement.More than eight years of civil war in Yemen has unleashed what the UN describes as one of the world’s worst humanitarian tragedies.

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