20, 2003 - Stage pyrotechnics during a Great White concert at the Station nightclub in Warwick, Rhode Island, spark a fire that kills 100 people and injures more than 200 others.įeb. 17, 2003 - Twenty-one are crushed to death in the stairway exit to E2, a nightclub in Chicago.įeb. More than 120 people are killed when police fire tear gas into the rowdy crowd in a stadium in the Ghanaian capital Accra, leading to panic.įeb. 16, 1996 - Eighty-four people die and 147 are injured as panicked fans are crushed and smothered before a World Cup qualifier between Guatemala and Costa Rica in Guatemala City.ĪpA crush of pilgrims on a bridge in Mecca leaves 118 hajj pilgrims dead.ĪpAt least 43 people are crushed to death during a soccer match at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. 23, 1994 - A panicked crush during a political protest in Nagpur, India, leaves 113 dead. JanuForty-two people are killed when fans try to escape brawls at Oppenheimer Stadium in South Africa.Ī crush of pilgrims at the hajj leaves 270 Muslim pilgrims dead. JDuring the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia, 1,426 Muslim pilgrims, mainly from Asia, die in and around a long pedestrian tunnel leading from Mecca to Mina. One victim died this June of aspiration pneumonia, to which he had been left vulnerable because of injuries from the disaster. MaNinety-three people are killed when thousands of soccer fans surge into locked stadium exits to escape a sudden hailstorm in Kathmandu, Nepal.ĪpNinety-seven people die and hundreds are injured in a crush of fans at overcrowded Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. Thirty-nine people died in fan violence at the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels. 20, 1982 - Sixty-six people die in a crush of fans leaving a UEFA Cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem, of the Netherlands, at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.

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