1,426 people died during the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1990 … An estimated 2,411 victims in 2015
Earlier this month, 132 people died at an Indonesian soccer field … Religious and cultural events with ‘dangerous’ crowds
On the night of 29, two days before Halloween, a crowd gathered in Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, and at least 149 people died.
The most recent case occurred during a football match held at Kanjuruhan Soccer Field in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia on 1st.
When the home team lost, enthusiastic spectators rushed into the stadium, but when the police fired tear gas to stop it, the hall went into chaos in an instant and people rushed to the exit and got tangled. , killing 132 people.
Dozens of those who were crushed by the crowd at the time of the accident are still in critical condition, so the death toll is likely to rise in the future.
If you look at past cases, there have been many cases where various religious events with large crowds resulted in casualties and also the Saudi Arabia incident in July 1990, where the largest number of casualties occurred, falls into this category. .
At that time, 1,426 people were crushed to death during the “Eid al-Adha” (sacrificial festival) after the “Hajj” pilgrimage near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holy site of Islam.
It happened when people poured into the Mecca pedestrian tunnel.
According to Saudi authorities, 717 people were killed, but foreign media such as the Associated Press estimated that at least 2,411 people were killed in the incident.
In Saudi Arabia, 270 pilgrims were killed on the Jamarat bridge in May 1994 and another 200 died four years later during the summer solstice in April 1998.
Subsequently, mass deaths occurred during Islamic religious events, including 251 people near the Jamarat Bridge in February 2004 and 362 people on the Jamarat Bridge in January 2006.
In January 2005, Hindu pilgrims poured into a remote temple in the state of Mahashtra, killing at least 265 people.
In 2008, pilgrims flocking to the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh, India, heard rumors of a landslide that killed at least 145 people.
In 2013, 115 people were killed in Hindu temples in Madhya Pradesh, India.
In August 2005, rumors of suicide bombings spread through the crowd on a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, and people panicked, killing more than 15 people.
In April last year, 44 people were crushed to death in Israel during a Jewish holiday.
In January of this year, 12 Hindu pilgrims poured into Kashmir, a disputed area between India and Pakistan, and killed 12 people.
In the same month, 29 people were crushed to death during a nighttime Christian event at a church in the Liberian capital of Monrovia.
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It is not uncommon for people to get out of control due to sporting or cultural events, resulting in casualties.
In April 1989, in England, 96 people were killed and more than 200 injured when crowds thronged the stadium where the English Football Association (FA) Cup professional football match was held between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
In October 1996, 84 people in Guatemala were crushed or suffocated in chaos before a World Cup qualifier match against Costa Rica.
In May 2001, police fired tear gas at a rioting crowd at a football stadium in Ghana’s capital, Accra, and tried to crack down on it.
In February 2003, in a nightclub in Illinois, United States, 21 people were crushed to death as people rushed off the stairs.
In July 2010, a techno music festival called “Love Parade” was held in Duisburg, Germany and 19 people were killed when spectators passing through a tunnel near the theater pushed each other.
In November 2010, in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, thousands of people gathered on the island of Koh Pik to watch a boat race on the last day of the annual three-day Bon Om Touk, an annual festival of the water, on the narrow bridge connecting the island and the land gathered at once and at least 350 people were killed.
In 2013, a fire broke out in a nightclub in Santa Maria, a university town in southern Brazil, which evacuated guests and killed more than 230 people.
A hip-hop star held in Houston, Texas in November last year.
/ yunhap news
