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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.
Crowd crushes have proven to be deadly in recent years. At the 2021 Astroworld festival in Texas, 10 people were crushed to death. In 2010, nearly two dozen were killed as a crowd stampeded at the ...
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 ...
Crowd control is a public security practice in which large crowds are managed in order to prevent the outbreak of crowd crushes, affray, fights involving drunk and disorderly people or riots. Crowd crushes in particular can cause many hundreds of fatalities. [1] Effective crowd management is about managing expected and unexpected crowd ...
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The effort comes after a crowd surge last year led to a crush in a narrow alley in the Itaewon nightlife district, killing 159 people in a disaster blamed on a lack of preparation and crowd ...
The crowd crush occurred during a performance by Travis Scott, founder of the Astroworld Festival (pictured here at a 2019 concert). Scott was scheduled to start his set at 8:45 p.m. but did not appear on stage until 9:02 p.m., starting his set at 9:06 p.m. [22] [25] [36] [35] His appearance resulted in a push toward it, leading to a human crush.
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.