WORLD BRIEFING / MOROCCO
Times Wire Reports
Eleven people were killed in a stampede at a stadium in the Moroccan capital when thousands of spectators hurried to leave at the end of a concert wrapping up the city’s landmark music festival.
The stampede caused a fence to give way, killing five women, two teenagers and four men. Forty people were injured, eight of them seriously.
The victims were among 70,000 spectators at a concert by Moroccan pop star Abdelaziz Stati at the Hay Nahda soccer stadium in Rabat.
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