DCC shares shot up 4.5% yesterday on the back of the support services group announcing improved first-quarter profits and further acquisitions in the US and the UK.

At least 22 people were killed and 27 others injured in a stampede on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during Friday morning's rush-hour.

It has been reported that hundreds of Italian football fans have been injured in one of Turin's main squares.

The dead include six women, one man and one boy.

At least 19 people have been killed and 25 others injured in a stampede as they were crossing a crowded bridge to reach the venue of a Hindu religious ceremony in northern India, police said.

A drill to test terrorism preparedness at a leading Kenyan university led to a stampede in which one person died and 20 others were injured, the institution said.

Muslim pilgrims are continuing with the final rites of hajj a day after more than 700 people died in a stampede.

A stampede killed at least 717 pilgrims and injured hundreds more on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the deadliest tragedy to strike the annual hajj pilgrimage in more than two decades.

At least 150 people have been killed in a stampede at the annual hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia’s civil defence directorate said.

At least 22 people have been killed in a stampede during a charity handout during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police in Bangladesh said.

Move, peasant.