CNN —At least 32 people were killed in crowd crushes at two separate charity events in Nigeria on Saturday, police say. Some 22 people were killed at an event held in a community center in Okija in the southeastern state of Anambra, state police said on Sunday. The event was held to distribute bags of rice to women in need, state broadcaster Radio Nigeria reported. Hundreds of people showed up to receive the rice, it said, leading to the crowd crush when people surged forward to try and reach it. Saturday’s deaths come just days after a crowd crush in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria, killed at least 35 children.

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Persons: ” Christian Aburime, Obi Jackson, ” Aburime, ”, Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Bola Tinubu, “, Tinubu, ” Bayo Onanuga, ” Tinubu Organizations: CNN, Radio Nigeria, Chief, Federal Capital, World Bank Locations: Nigeria, Okija, Anambra, Maitama, Nigeria’s, Abuja, Lagos, Federal Capital Territory, Ibadan