This can get very dangerous very quickly. Experts refer to such an incident as a stampede, crowd surge, or crowd crush. Human stampedes have occurred at various types of gatherings around the world.

Panaji, May 4 (PTI) Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai, who visited on Sunday the families of those killed in a temple stampede in North Goa district, called the incident “beyond human ...

He said the new aid system continues "collective punishment of Palestinians" and is an "assault on their human dignity." The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – the murky, fledgling organization ...

The vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in ...

Some 135 people were killed in a crush at a soccer stadium in southeast Guinea on Sunday, a local group of human rights organizations said, sharing an estimated death toll more than twice as high ...

Local administrators estimate the total number of visits to this year’s Maha Kumbh over a 45-day period at a massive 663 ...

The commission noted that the police should have foreseen the risks involved and taken proactive steps to avoid the tragedy ...

Six people died and several others were injured in a stampede during a festival at Shree ... Talking to PTI, Pillai said the incident was “beyond our human expectation”. Pillai said he was ...