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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.
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 ...
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 doors were left closed for up to 15 minutes as the crush worsened. [1] Nine people were crushed to death at the bottom of the staircase, while 29 others were injured. [2] The nine people killed were from various parts of New York City and surrounding areas. Jabaal Rainey was 15 and from Harlem, not far from the event.
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 ...
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.
A crowd crush at a soccer match in the west African country of Guinea has left at least 56 people dead and many others injured, authorities said Monday.
Ten people died as a result of the Astroworld Festival crowd crush. Eight victims, aged 9 to 27, died on the night of the concert. [60] One formerly unidentified victim was later identified to be 23-year-old Axel Acosta. [61] Twenty-two-year-old student Bharti Shahani was declared brain dead on November 9 [62] and died the next day. [24]