Fri Apr 30, 2021, 03:41 AM
Soph0571 (8,766 posts)
Dozens killed in crush at Lag Baomer religious festival in IsraelThis discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Omaha Steve (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum). At least 44 people have been killed and about 150 injured in a crowd crush at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel attended by tens of thousands of people, in one of the country’s worst peacetime disasters. Eli Beer, director of an Israeli volunteer ambulance service, Hatzalah, said he was shocked by the size of the crowds at Mount Meron overnight, estimated at around 100,000. Children were among the dead, he told Army Radio on Friday morning. “Unfortunately, we found small children trampled there, and we performed CPR on children. We were able to save some of them,” he said. Zaka, another voluntary emergency medical group, said the death toll had risen to 44. Meanwhile, the national ambulance service, Magen David Adom, said 14 of the roughly 150 injured remained in critical condition after being rushed to hospitals around the country. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/30/killed-in-crush-at-religious-festival-in-israel-lag-baomer-mount-meron This is awful. Too many people in too small a space - should not have been allowed to happen. May the victims here RIP. 
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Soph0571 | Apr 30 | OP |
| abqtommy | Apr 30 | #1 | |
| Soph0571 | Apr 30 | #2 | |
| abqtommy | Apr 30 | #3 | |
| greenjar_01 | Apr 30 | #7 | |
| Backseat Driver | Apr 30 | #9 | |
| joetheman | Apr 30 | #4 | |
| no_hypocrisy | Apr 30 | #5 | |
| MissMillie | Apr 30 | #6 | |
| Jetheels | Apr 30 | #8 | |
| Omaha Steve | Apr 30 | #10 |
Response to Soph0571 (Original post)
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 05:55 AM
abqtommy (10,039 posts)
1. In my lifetime I've heard of these types of incidents but mainly in India. It is sad what
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Fri Apr 30, 2021, 06:02 AM
Soph0571 (8,766 posts)
2. It happens on hajj quite often also n/t
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Fri Apr 30, 2021, 06:22 AM
abqtommy (10,039 posts)
3. You're right, of course. There's a pattern in all of this.
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Response to abqtommy (Reply #1)
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 07:49 AM
7. One of the more notorious recent crowd crush events was at Love Parade...in Germany
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Fri Apr 30, 2021, 09:50 AM
Backseat Driver (2,040 posts)
9. One of the reasons I won't ever go to Ohio's
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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 06:34 AM
4. Horrifying! How tragic for these people.
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I am just wondering what kind of COVID outbreak will emerge on top of this. Festive, mask-less crowds dancing and singing in very, very tight quarters??? More tragedy on top of tragedy. Painful days ahead. No words to adequately express the sadness.
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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 06:47 AM
5. This demonstrates how little control Netanyahu has over ultra religious/Orthodox Israelis.
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Fri Apr 30, 2021, 07:46 AM
6. 1979 and The Who all over again... except
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Fri Apr 30, 2021, 08:50 AM
8. Is there not other ways to celebrate than joining a massive crowd? Sad, tragic.
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Fri Apr 30, 2021, 10:06 AM
Omaha Steve (80,091 posts)
10. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
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