DHAKA, Oct 21: Nine people were trampled to death and 50 others injured in Bangladesh on Saturday in two stampedes for free Eid clothes and Zakat.
Five people died in Mymensingh when thousands of poor people scrambled to enter a tobacco factory after it was opened soon after daybreak for distribution of clothes among the poor.
Witness said thousands of people, mostly women, had started gathering outside the factory before sunrise to collect clothes.
In Patuakhali three people were killed and 40 others injured at the residence of a leader of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party when he opened the gate of his house to distribute Zakat.
