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At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said.

[File photo] Fire fighters at a scene of a fire.

People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, the force said.In doing so, many people suffocated to death. So far nine people are confirmed dead,” the police statement read. People had been celebrating the New Year at the mall which is on a highway linking Kampala to Entebbe airport.

 

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