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The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival added even more names to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event. At the Hillsborough soccer stadium in England, a human crush ...
Number of casualties: Five people were killed and more than 200 were injured The Magdeburg Christmas market in Germany is left in shambles after a car rammed into a crowd, killing five people and ...
In 2023, one man was killed in an attack outside a bar. And the year before that in June 2022, three people were killed and 14 injured in an early morning shooting outside another nightclub, Knox ...
A contagious shooting is a sociological phenomenon observed in police personnel, in which one person firing on a target can induce others to begin shooting without knowing why they are firing. The term may have been coined, but certainly rose to prominence in public discourse in the aftermath of the killing of Amadou Diallo by the NYPD in 1999 ...
[a] For a person in a crowd a signal of danger, and a warning to get out of the crowd if possible, is the sensation of being touched on all four sides. A later, more serious, warning is when one feels shock waves travelling through the crowd, due to people at the back pushing forward against people at the front with nowhere to go. [21]
When a crowd has to wait a long time before something happens, this crowd can get bored or annoyed. A possible explanation behind this is that the crowd gets the feeling that the situation is a big act, which leads to increased frustrations. They may wonder whether the person really wants to commit suicide or he is just in it to get some publicity.
I n the early hours of the New Year’s Day celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the city was attacked when a driver veered a pickup truck into the crowd, killing 14 people and wounding ...
US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people; Middle East latest: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza; The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless; Israeli troops burn northern Gaza hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients ...