Following altercations at a football game in N’zérékoré, Guinea’s second-largest city, dozens of people perished in a crush, according to local media.
Prime Minister Mamadou Oury Bah urged for calm after claiming that a rush at the ceremony on Sunday claimed several lives.
A doctor who wished to remain anonymous informed the AFP news agency that the morgue was filled and that other dead were “lined up” in the nearby hospital.
After fans of the visiting team, Labé, threw stones at the field in retaliation at the referee, local media reported that police had used tear gas.
No official death toll has been announced as of yet.