LISBON Tue Jan 1, 2013 5:13pm EST
LISBON (Reuters) - Ten people were smashed to be able to demise as well as 120 damaged in the Angolan cash Luanda while they tested out for you to key in an overcrowded stadium for just a vigil structured by your Pentecostal church, the particular state media agent Angop documented on Tuesday.
Angop cited an urgent situation products spokesman as indicating this victims, as well as four children, were crushed along at the gates of the particular Cidadela Desportiva stadium, where the Universal Church in the Kingdom with God (IURD) tidy a vigil on Monday night.
IURD is usually a Pentecostal Christian church developed throughout 1977 in Brazil, where there are over seven thousand followers, as outlined by specific to it website. IURD pronounces that is present generally in most nations around the world of the world.
Ferner Batalha, IURD's deputy bishop pertaining to Angola, said the vigil have been overcrowded.
"Our expectation has been to get 70,000 people, however that was surpassed by simply far," Angop cited him when saying.
(Reporting by Shrikesh Laxmidas; Editing simply by Kevin Liffey)
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