{{At least 34 people, including several children, were killed in a stampede at a beachside rap concert celebrating the end of Ramadan in Guinea’s capital Conakry, medical sources said on Wednesday.}}<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people gathered at the Donka hospital in the capital to visit the injured and identify the dead. A Reuters reporter saw the bodies of three children among the dead. Witnesses put the number at around ten.<\/p>\n
“There are currently 34 bodies in the morgue. The list of injured keeps growing,” a medical source told Reuters, requesting anonymity. “The oldest among them can’t be more than 20. There are young girls among them,” he said.<\/p>\n
The presidency declared a week of mourning. The head of a government agency for entertainment had been removed from his post following the incident overnight, the presidency added.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said the event was attended by up to 10,000 people, mostly children and youths, who came to see popular local rap groups ‘Banlieuzart’ and ‘Instinct Killers’.<\/p>\n
In January, six youths were killed on another beach in Conakry when a bridge collapsed during New Year’s celebrations. Conakry’s beaches are small compared to other regional capitals like Dakar and Freetown and entrances and exits are often narrow.<\/p>\n
The stampede, which occurred during celebrations to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in mainly Muslim Guinea, comes at a time when health workers are stretched by an outbreak of Ebola.<\/p>\n
The deadly tropical virus was first detected in the poor, mineral-rich West African country in February and has since spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 670 people, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n
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