“And we detected the very same oscillations,” which emerged just before the deadly stampede, Dr. Bartolo said. When the researchers built a mathematical model of crowd mechanics, they found ...

NYC commuters know well the anxiety-ridden moment when a train is finally called at Penn Station, minutes before departure — when otherwise typically civilized commuters often stampede like ...

Prayagraj, India — A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people in India on Wednesday, with many more injured after a surging crowd spilled out of a ...

At least 116 people, all but one of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a religious event in northern India, authorities said. Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered at ...