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The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens within the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters.
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the Hillsborough Disaster, a 1989 tragedy at a British soccer stadium. Overcrowding in the stands led to the deaths of 96 fans.
Hillsborough disaster: United Kingdom: Sheffield: 97 people died and 766 were injured at Hillsborough Stadium during an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The intensity of the crush broke the barriers on the terraces, while those trapped were packed so tightly in the pens that many victims died of compressive asphyxia while ...
245 people died in the Lyon bridge disaster of 1711, when a large crowd returning from a festival on one side of the bridge found their way blocked by a collision between a carriage and a cart, and became trapped. Crowd collapses and crowd crushes are catastrophic incidents that can occur when a body of people becomes dangerously overcrowded.
Flags were flown at half mast on civic buildings and football club sites throughout the day.
Detectives with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office have closed a 1993 cold case involving the killing of 23-year-old Roslin Kruse. Kruse was last seen alive on Nov. 1, 1993, at 13102 Mike ...
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Hillsborough is a 2014 documentary about the Hillsborough disaster. Directed and produced by Daniel Gordon , the two-hour film chronicles the disaster, the investigations, and their lingering effects; it also includes interviews with survivors, victims' relatives, police officers and investigators.