You read news stories like this and wonder at the brilliance of people in-charge.
Soccer game going on. Someone thought a player is doing witchcraft. Crowd gets angry. Rioting start. And then to calm people down, the police starts firing in the air.
Sheesh!!!
Needless to say it resulted in even more panic in the crowd and the *mêlée *that resulted left many people dead, mostly children, who were probably trampled to death.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) – Accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft during a match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a U.N.-funded radio station reported Monday.
Most of the victims were between the ages of 11 and 16, Radio Okapi said. They were suffocated as panicked crowds ran for the exits during the mayhem Sunday in Butembo in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province.
Radio Okapi said police tried to control the violence at Matokeo stadium by firing into the air to protect their commander, who was hit in the head and wounded by fans.
… the regional governor, Julien Mpaluku, paid a visit to the hospital.
Mpaluku said the government was investigating.
He made no mention of witchcraft, but confirmed that soldiers had fired into the air to calm angry crowds. The shooting prompted panic instead, which became fatal “when the crowds all tried to leave at the same time.”
Let me call Congo and try to get an answer for you. Stay tuned.
perhaps, he wanted to know if there was some gesture from player that made people think that... if it was reported - that is... otherwise, please, do the needful ASAP :D
If you understood the question, then also feel free to answer it too
ps. Reminds me of the joke where two guys were talking last distance and the operator told a guy that why are you saying you can’t hear the other guy, when you can hear him just fine…
but the news is brought to us by you. I am not aware of the incident better than you… Dude had a legitimate question and we are waiting for the reply with utmost patience and with extreme baycheni
we're deviating from the news story but I will answer you this...
I read it dewd rops .... dewd = dude...
now this style of saying salam and wa ailakum assalaam at the beginning and end of the post is very familiar and a dude used to have it exactly like that ... So, that's why :-)
for using the right words.That is exactly what i meant but maybe my words weren’t clear enough to get the meaning across correctly .
