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The tunnel's capacity of 1,000 soon filled with as many as 5,000 people. [5] With outside temperatures of 44 °C (111 °F), a failure of the tunnel's ventilation system was also blamed for many of the deaths. [6] Some witnesses claimed they believed a demonstration was occurring; others reported that the power to the tunnel was deactivated. [7]
This is a list of crowd collapses and crushes in which at least five people died. 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 ...
Mecca crane collapse: Masjid al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 111 13 August 1935 Dam failure Molare, Italy 108 1951 Taisho Lake Dam failure Ide, Japan 100+ 1 December 2000 Dongguan Mall collapse [45] [46] Dongguan, China 100 21 February 1890 Walnut Grove Dam failure Wickenburg, Arizona, United States 100 16 June 1990 Saque Comprehensive College ...
Pages in category "Human stampedes in 1990" ... 0–9. 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy This page was last edited on 13 April 2023, at 01:10 (UTC). ...
New satellite images have revealed mass graves being assembled for the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey.. On 6 February, a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks struck ...
A concrete multi-story building located in Mecca close to the Grand Mosque collapsed on 5 January 2006. The building, the Al-Ghaza Hotel, is said to have housed a restaurant, a convenience store, and a hotel. The hotel was reported to have been housing pilgrims to the 2006 Hajj. As a result, 76 people died and 62 people were injured. [35]
2017: Juice Tank: Lebedyan, Russia: Tank: resulted in a flooding of Lebedyan with 28 million liters juice 2017: Plasco Building: Tehran, Iran: Shopping mall: 21 dead, 70 injured, 1 missing 2017: Troja Pedestrian Bridge collapse: Prague, Czechia: Bridge: 4 injured 2017: Eindhoven Airport parking garage collapse [36] Eindhoven, Netherlands ...
US Geological Survey releases map revealing location of 7.2-magnitude earthquake. In photos: Earthquake in Morocco that killed 296 led people to rush out of their homes and turned buildings to ...