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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 ...
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.
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 (), 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 Independence.
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.
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 ...
"The photo albums were in an office behind the front wall, which is still there. It shielded some of them," Valerie said. "So most of my photo albums were saved, which is wonderful."
Upon hearing of an impending French and Indian attack upon the Ulster county frontiers, British colonists massacred several peaceful Munsee families near Walden, New York. Several families [105] [106] 1747: October: Chama River: New Mexico: Spanish troops ambushed a group of Utes on the Chama River, killing 111 Indians and taking 206 as ...