At least 11 women were trampled to death in Afghanistan and many more injured when a stampede broke out Wednesday in a soccer stadium where …
At least 11 women were trampled to death in Afghanistan and many more injured when a stampede broke out Wednesday in a soccer stadium where they were applying for visas to enter neighboring Pakistan, officials said. Thousands of people were redirected to the stadium instead of the visa center in the city of Jalalabad amid a surge of applications after a seven-month pause due to the coronavirus pandemic, a local spokesman told the BBC. “The visa applicants jostled to secure their token from the consulate officials,” an official, according to Reuters.
