Human stampede this Sunday at a religious festival in Ethiopia leaves 52 dead confirmed the Oromia government.
About 2 million people were attending an Irrecha Thanksgiving festival in the city of Bishoftu when people started chanting slogans that were aimed against the government said witnesses. While people were chanting they crowded closer towards the stage where religious leaders were speaking and starting through water bottles and rocks on stage.
The government responded as police shot rubber bullets and released tear gas on the protesters. People tried to flee, but some fell in nearby ditches and were crushed.
The first to fall were crushed to death, said protestor Elias who was drugged out of the deep ditch himself.
There has been months of anti-government protests and harsh government response and is raising international concern. The U.S. spoke against what is being call excessive force by the Ethiopian situation "extremely serious"
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