A series of accidents at Nigeria's Christmas charity events..."48 people were crushed to death for 3 days".

Local media reported that at least 48 people were killed in a three-day series of crush accidents as people flocked to events to distribute relief supplies in Nigeria ahead of Christmas.

Nigerian police said 10 people, including four children, were killed at a Christmas event at a cathedral in downtown Abuja on the morning of the 21st local time.

On the same day, a charity Christmas event in the southeastern town of Okiza also killed three people.

On the 19th, the death toll reached 48 in three days, with 35 people crushed to death at a high school in Bashorun, Oyu, in the southwestern province of Oyu.All of the

-year-old accidents included many women and children, and were mutilated while trying to receive food and clothes to distribute, local police said.President

Bola Tinubu said in a condolence statement the day before that he had cancelled all official events scheduled for the weekend.Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer with a population of 220 million

, is Africa's largest oil producer, but it has hardly escaped its chronic economic slump.