At least 15 people were trampled to death while many others were wounded in a stampede outside Pakistan's consulate in Jalalabad, the capital of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Wednesday. Media reports suggest that Afghans gathered in large numbers and were waiting for the tokens they needed to apply for a Pakistani visa at a football stadium in Jalalabad city.
According to Sohrab Qaderi, a provincial council member, 11 of the 15 victims were women.
"The visa applicants jostled to secure their token from the consulate officials...the crowd got out of control, leading to a stampede," an official in Jalalabad was cited as saying by Reuters.