Wtf. Stampedes somehow seem like a pre-modern type of disaster.
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they happen quite frequently in the modern world
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Not a stampede per se, a crowd crush. Narrow street, weird barriers, way to many (drunk) people and nowhere obvious for them to go. You don’t realize something is wrong till it’s way too late and no viable way to communicate to people on the periphery. Happens all the time.
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"There has been a steady rise in such crushes since the 1990s"
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