List of Accidents and Disasters By Death Toll - Stampedes and Panics

Stampedes and Panics

  1. 4,000 – mass panic at air raid shelter, during Japanese bombing of Chongqing, most deaths caused by suffocation (Chongqing, China, 1941)
  2. 1,426 – stampede by pilgrims inside a pedestrian tunnel (Mecca, 1990)
  3. 1,389 – Khodynka Tragedy at coronation of Nicholas II, (Moscow, 1896)
  4. 953 – Baghdad bridge stampede, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2005) (note: because the stampede was triggered by reports of a bombing, this figure is also included in the higher estimate for casualties of the War in Iraq)
  5. 800 – 1954 Kumbh Mela stampede, crowd crush at religious festival (Allahabad, India, 1954)
  6. 357 – Phnom Penh stampede (Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2010)
  7. 362 – stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2006)
  8. 270 – stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 1994)
  9. 258 – crowd crush at religious festival (Wai, Maharashtra, India, 2005)
  10. 251 – stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2004)
  11. 224 – 2008 Jodhpur stampede disaster in Chamunda Devi temple (Rajasthan, India, September 30, 2008)
  12. 200 – stampede in the central place of Nagpur (Maharashtra, India, 1992)
  13. 183 – Victoria Hall theatre stairway crush (Sunderland, 1883)
  14. 173 – Bethnal Green tube station panic (London, 1943)
  15. 162 – Naina Devi Temple stampede disaster (Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, India, August 3, 2008)
  16. 130 – 1994 Gowari stampede in Maharashtra State Legislature building (Nagpur, India, November 23, 1994)
  17. 124 – New Year event stampede at Yahiko Shrine (Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, January 1, 1956)
  18. 123 – Hearts of Oak vs. Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko football match crush (Accra, Ghana, 2001)
  19. 118 – pilgrims trampled to death (Mecca, 1998)
  20. 105 – Yingze Park lantern festival stampede disaster in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, (October 10, 1991)
  21. 102 – 2011 Sabarimala stampede, broken out during an annual pilgrimage (Sabarimala, Kerala, India, January 14, 2011)
  22. 96 – Hillsborough disaster crush (Sheffield, England, 1989)
  23. 84 – Guatemala and Costa Rica football match crush (Guatemala City, October 16, 1996)
  24. 78 – PhilSports Arena stampede, (Manila, Philippines, February 4, 2006)
  25. 77 – stampede and panics at Kyoto railroad station (Japan, January 8, 1934)
  26. 73 – Italian Hall disaster (Calumet, Michigan, 1913)
  27. 72 – River Plate vs Boca Juniors football match, stampede at gate 12 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 23, 1968)
  28. 70 – Glen Cinema Disaster, panic caused by smouldering cinema film, Glen Cinema, (Paisley, Scotland, 31 December 1929)
  29. 67 – 1959 Busan stadium stampede disaster, (Busan, South Korea, July 17, 1959)
  30. 66 – Second Ibrox disaster crush (Glasgow, Scotland, 1971) / Luzhniki disaster, football match crush (Moscow, USSR. October 20, 1982)
  31. 61 – Abidjan stampede disaster, (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, January 1, 2013)
  32. 60 – Jean Monthe Institute secondary school panic disaster, (Yaoundé, Cameroon, December 6, 1988) / A tent fire after stampede, during local festival parade (Jamshedpur, Bihar, India on March 3, 1989)
  33. 56 – Los Angeles de San Rafael square stampede disaster, during contest event (Segovia, Castile-León, Spain, June 15, 1969)
  34. 53 – Niamiha metro station stampede (Minsk, Belarus, May 31, 1999)
  35. 52 – Hengyang railroad station stampede disaster, during Lunar New Year holidays of final day, Hengyang, Hunan, China (February 14, 1994)
  36. 51 – Yemeni presidential candidate Ali Abdullah Saleh election rally stampede disaster (Zunjubar, Ibb Governorate, Yemen, September 13, 2006)
  37. 50 – Mahamaham Stampede disaster (Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India on February 18, 1992)
  38. 45 – Qutab Minar Tower stampede disaster by electric power failure (Delhi, India, December 4, 1981)
  39. 44 – Kayseri Atatürk Stadium disaster (Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey, September 17, 1968)
  40. 42 – Ellis Park Stadium Disaster (Johannesburg, South Africa, April 11, 2001)
  41. 39 – Heysel Stadium disaster (Brussels, May 29, 1985)
  42. 37 – Mihong Park Lantern Festival stampede disaster (Miyun, Beijing, China, February 5, 2004)
  43. 36 – Modibo Keita Stadium stampede disaster (Bamako, Mali on February 21, 2011)
  44. 33 – Kumbh Mela bathing festival stampede disaster (Nasik, Maharashtra, India, August 26, 2003)
  45. 29 – Mosque stampede (Karachi, 2006)
  46. 27 – Granadilla Civil Governor Office stapede disaster, during waiting to apply for local identify card (Granadilla, Tenerife Island, Spain, February 2, 1963)
  47. 26 – Djinuereber Mosque stampede disaster (Timbuktu, Mali, February 2010)
  48. 25 – a stampede by building collapse, during Shiuratri festival (Patna, Bihar, India, March 6, 1989)
  49. 24 – Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero Stampede Disaster (Cali, Colombia, November 18, 1982)
  50. 23 – al-Mureikh Stadium stampede disaster, during graduation ceremony (Omdurman, Sudan July 13, 2008)
  51. 21 – Lan Kwai Fong stampede disaster (Hong Kong, December 31, 1992) / Love Parade stampede (Duisburg, Germany, July 24, 2010)
  52. 20 – Steve Kekana concert stampede disaster (Maseru, Lesotho, August 29, 1980) / Mexican singar Martinez Gil and twist singer Pily Gaos concert stampede disaster (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, January 31, 1965)
  53. 19 – Synagogue stampede during the feast of Yom Kippur (Ostrowo, Germany, 10 October 1872) / Stampede disaster after Christina Nilsson´s appearance at a window of Grand Hôtel (Stockholm, Sweden, September 23, 1885)
  54. 13 – News Divine nightclub stampede disaster (Nueva Atzacoalco, Mexico City, June 20, 2008) / Throb Nightclub stampede disaster (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, March 24, 2000)
  55. 12 – Crush on Brooklyn Bridge, four days after opening (New York, May 30, 1883)
  56. 11 – Crowd crush at The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum (Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, December 3, 1979) / Eleven killed and 247 injured in a pedestrian crush after a fireworks festival (Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, July 21, 2001) / Alexandria Stadium football match stampede disaster (Northern Egypt, January 1999)
  57. 10 – All Africa Arts Hall concert stampede disaster (Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, February 10, 2008)
  58. 9 – Pearl Jam performance at Roskilde Festival (Denmark, June 30, 2000)

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