Tanzania police confirm 45 people died in stadium crush

Figure is many times higher than the five fatalities initially announced after 21 March disaster

A stampede at a Tanzanian stadium crushed 45 people to death as mourners paid last respects to the late President John Magufuli, police said on Tuesday - many times more than the five fatalities initially announced after the disaster on 21 March.

Police in the port city of Dar es Salaam, where the stampede occurred, attributed some of the deaths to people being starved of oxygen at the event due to overcrowding.