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Akashi crowd crush: Japan: Akashi: 247 others injured by a crowd crush after a fireworks show. [53] 7: 21 December 2001: Unnamed: Bulgaria: Sofia: Children aged 10 to 14 killed on the stairway leading to the entrance of a discothèque. [54] 14: 11 February 2003: Unnamed: Saudi Arabia: Mina: Occurred during the Stoning of the Devil ritual of the ...
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.
Describing the chaos at the gathering, a survivor named Rekha told Reuters the crush occurred after the preaching had ended, saying: “Anyone who fell did not get up, was trampled by the crowd ...
The fatalities occurred when the ramp between tunnel underpasses and the festival area overcrowded until there was a crush. [15] [16] One police officer reported that; The atmosphere was explosive. Many in the crowd seemed to be intoxicated. When people started falling off the stairs and pulling others with them, it became just chaotic.
The aftermath of the crush in the southwest Nigerian city of Ibadan. - TVC NEWS/Reuters Nigeria, a West African nation home to more than 236 million people, has seen several deadly crowd crushes ...
Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of millions of devotees went to bathe in a river on one of the most ...
The crowd crush occurred during a performance by Travis Scott, founder of the Astroworld Festival (pictured here at a 2019 concert). Scott was scheduled to start his set at 8:45 p.m. but did not appear on stage until 9:02 p.m., starting his set at 9:06 p.m. [22] [25] [36] [35] His appearance resulted in a push toward it, leading to a human crush.
In 2008, nearly 150 people who had gathered for a religious event in western India died in a hilltop crowd crush, and three years prior, more than 250 people were trampled to death during a ...