23 Indonesians killed in crush for €3 cash handout

AT least 23 Indonesians were crushed to death trying to collect $4.25 (€3) in cash handouts from a rich family at a charity event marking the Islamic holy month, officials said. Eight others were critically injured in the stampede.

Several thousand people started gathering outside the house in Pasuruan, a town about 800km east of the capital of Jakarta, in the morning to collect their tithe, said local police chief Harry Sitompul.

Television footage showed the victims — mostly women — screaming as they were pushed into the fence outside the home.