7-year-old among 12 dead in stampede for food aid in Pakistan, highlighting economic crisis

Umer Zada stood over the coffin of his seven-year-old son Saad, offering prayers with other mourners on April 5, 2023. Saad was among a dozen people killed in a stampede at a food distribution centre on March 31, 2023, when a hungry crowd of hundreds began to panic and push to collect food. The incident is the deadliest of several that have broken out at food distribution sites across the country in recent weeks, symptoms of a crunching economic and social crisis exacerbated by rising inflation in Pakistan.