At least 35 children killed in crowd crush at school fair in Nigeria

Police arrest eight people after incident at Basorun Islamic high school in the city of Ibadan

At least 35 children have died and six others have been seriously injured in a crowd crush at a school fair in Nigeria’s third-largest city of Ibadan.

“Eight persons have since been arrested for their various involvements” in the incident, Adewale Osifeso, a spokesperson for the police command in Oyo state, said in a statement on Thursday.