One of the children who survived the Bingu National Stadium stampede has faulted the police for failing to control the situation professionally.
The boy who did not want to be named said police officers fuelled the commotion at the stadium when they began beating people as a way of stopping them from entering the stadium after the gates were opened.
“Police officers were fighting people because of the overcrowding at the gate. As a result of this some people especially children fell down that forced others to step over them,” the young man told Malawi24.
“Police officers are to blame because they used violent measures of cooling down the situation. Had it been police officers used proper measures, the incident would have been avoided.”
He then thanked God for saving him saying he was smelling death.
Eight people died in the stampede of which six are boys while the other two are a girl and a man.
On Thursday afternoon, President Peter Mutharika visited people who got injured due to the stampede and spoke on the need for authorities to make sure that such a tragedy should not happen again.
“Authorities should make sure that this does not happen again,” said Mutharika. “These are modern facilities with the ability to accommodate a number of people.”
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Amafuna a police azimuza atamugwadira?
Zaziii osangothokoza Mulungu kuti alimoyo bwanji?
In Malawi the most junior police officer is just like God. Stupid system
Kalekale 6july kamuzu stadium imasegulidwa 5pm pa 5july. Imakhala yosekula mpaka 10am pa 6july. Iyi mukusekula masana,zaulerezo? Ose anali my organising committee aimbidwe mlandu. Kupanda teargas pakadafa anthu 89+
Akadakhala iyeyo akadagwira bwanj ntchito atiuze timve
cooled pressure water
Muziti ndi Bushiri?
Parents at one point lets try to protect our children, in such occasion we can’t lets under 12 children to attend that ceremony, where ever there is free of charge occasion people especially young one get mad, we as parents we must be carefully of what we are doing to our children