Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children. Families are struggling during the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

At least 32 people were killed in crowd crushes at two separate charity events in Nigeria on Saturday, police have reported.

The Nigerian president's office says two crowd stampedes, one in the capital Abuja and another in the southern town of Okija, killed "many" people.

Authorities in Nigeria say 10 people, including four children, have been killed in a stampede in the capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food items distributed by a local church at a Christmas event.

The victims collapsed in crowd surges as people grew desperate for Christmas church food handouts during the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.View on euronews

The death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events in Nigeria has increased to 32, police said, with many of the victims collapsing during a crowd surge as people grew desperate for food items.

In both incidents, the victims were primarily women and children, who had queued for food handouts for hours.The number of people who died in stampedes at two charity events in Nigeria has increased from 13 to 32,