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At least 150. On 2 July 2024, a crowd crush occurred at the conclusion of a satsang organised by a self-styled godman [1] in the village of Mughal Garhi in Hathras district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The incident resulted in the deaths of 123 people, most of whom were women and children, and the hospitalisation of at least 150 others.
The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. In what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster, [3] over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly ...
This is a list of notable crowd collapses, crushes, and stampedes.Many such accidents are also in the list of accidents and disasters by death toll.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.
The orange rising from flames shone a light on the twilight scene. Savitri Devi, 50, had just been cremated. Devi was among more than 120 people who died in a stampede last week at a religious ...
Crowd collapses and crowd crushes are catastrophic incidents that can occur when a body of people becomes dangerously overcrowded. When numbers are up to about five people per square meter, [a] the environment may feel cramped but manageable; when numbers reach between eight and ten people per square meter, [1] [b] individuals become pressed ...
A woman caught up in Bristol's protests has praised a "hero" who came to aid after she suffered a panic attack when a restaurant was stormed. Philippa Swatton, 60, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, was ...
After the assassination of Indira Gandhi on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupted the following day. They continued in some areas for several days, killing more than 3,000 Sikhs in New Delhi [57] and an estimated 8,000 – 20,000 Sikhs in total were killed across 40 cities in India.
June 12, 2024 at 9:44 PM. The mother of a 15-year-old girl who lost one of her hands and a leg after one of a string of shark attacks that hit the Florida panhandle Friday has given updates on her ...