20 killed in stampede at service by Tanzanian preacher
A Moshi resident in Kilimanjaro region, north Tanzania, is consoled at Mawenzi hospital on February 2, 2020 in Arusha, after the death of her granddaughter at a stampede during a church service on February 1. PHOTO | FILBERT RWEYEMAMU | AFP
Kippi Warioba, District Commissioner in the northern town of Moshi, said he feared the number of dead could still rise from the accident which took place on Saturday.
The tragedy happened when a crowd of worshippers was attending a prayer ceremony on Saturday led by the popular preacher, Boniface Mwamposa, who heads the Arise and Shine Ministry Tanzania.
Mwamposa, the preacher, fled the scene after the stampede, and police appealed in a broadcast on national television for him to hand himself in.
Twenty people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the country, officials said on Sunday.
Kippi Warioba, District Commissioner in the northern town of Moshi, said he feared the number of dead could still rise from the accident which took place on Saturday.
