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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 ...
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Sega Akihabara Building 2, known as GiGO until 2017, a former large 6 floor Sega game center on Chuo Dori, in front of the LAOX Aso-Bit-City in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, in 2006 Video games are a major industry in Japan, and the country is considered one of the most influential in video gaming. Japanese game development is often identified with the golden age of video games and the country is ...
Here's how crowd crushes happen, how common they are, and what do if you're stuck in one.
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.
The Akashi pedestrian bridge accident (明石歩道橋事故, Akashi hodōkyō jiko) was a human crush that occurred on 21 July 2001 in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan. In the incident, a large crowd of people packed into a partially enclosed pedestrian overpass leading to Asagiri Station after a fireworks show. The resulting crush killed 11 people ...