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The deadliest modern crowd crush incidents have both occurred during the Hajj pilgrimage, with the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy claiming 1,426 lives and the 2015 Mina stampede claiming 2,400. [1] (Although the term "stampede" is used in some media outlets, the scientific consensus is that true stampedes involving humans are extremely rare. [1])
Such crowd crushes can occur when a moving crowd is funneled into a smaller and smaller space, when it meets an obstacle (such as a dead end, or a locked door), or when an already densely packed crowd has an influx of people, causing a pressure wave toward those at the front of the crowd.
A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people in India on January 29, 2025, with many more injured after a surging crowd spilled out of a police cordon ...
The City College stampede was a crowd crush event on December 28, 1991, in the City College of New York gymnasium during a charity basketball game organized and promoted by hip hop celebrities P. Diddy and Heavy D. Nearly 5,000 people tried to pack into the gymnasium, which could fit 2,730 people. [1]
The crush began at around 4am local time at Prayagraj, where the Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati rivers meet. Kumbh Mela crowd crush: Scattered belongings line floor after fatal ...
The South Korean government is facing serious scrutiny after a deadly crowd surge left 156 people dead and over 150 others injured — marking the country’s worst disaster in years.
2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede (note: because the stampede was triggered by reports of a bombing, this figure is also included in the higher estimate for casualties of the War in Iraq) Baghdad, Iraq: 800 3 February 1954 1954 Prayag Kumbh Mela stampede, crowd crush at religious festival Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 363 12 January 2006
On February 4, 2006, a crowd crush [a] occurred at the PhilSports Stadium in Pasig, Metro Manila, in the Philippines. The crush occurred hours before the first anniversary event of the noontime variety show Wowowee, where 30,000 people had been waiting outside to participate. It killed 73 people and wounded 400 others.