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In pictures: crowds gather at site of stampede. 14:00, Tom Watling (AP) ... absolves them of their sins and confers salvation from the cycle of birth and death. The world’s largest congregation ...
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])
1954 Kumbh Mela stampede was a major crowd crush that occurred on 3 February 1954 at Kumbha Mela in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh state in India. It was the main bathing day of Mauni Amavasya ( New Moon ), when the incident took place. 4–5 million pilgrims took part in the festival that year, which was also the first Kumbh Mela after India's ...
Due to the huge number of attendees stampedes are relatively common during Kumbh Mela festivals. The 1954 Kumbh Mela stampede was the deadliest since India's independence, with an estimated 1,000 deaths. The 2003 Kumbh Mela stampede killed 39 people in the city of Nashik, and seven were died during the 2010 Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. [11]
A crowd apparently panicked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Yemen’s capital late Wednesday ...
A stampede in Kenya during celebrations to mark an annual public holiday killed at least six people on Friday and injured 100 others, authorities said. The stampede happened when thousands of ...
Stampede events that involve humans are extremely rare and are unlikely to be fatal. [5] According to Keith Still, professor of crowd science at Manchester Metropolitan University, "If you look at the analysis, I've not seen any instances of the cause of mass fatalities being a stampede. People don't die because they panic.
The stampede happened in a village in Hathras district, about 200 km (125 miles) southeast of the national capital New Delhi, where authorities said thousands had gathered in sweltering late ...