Horrible tragedy...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...us-crush-israeli-bonfire-festival-2021-04-29/
Israeli medical workers sought on Friday to identify many of the 45 people crushed to death overnight at an overcrowded religious festival, where some of the victimswent unnoticed until the PA system sounded an appeal to disperse.
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations that include all-night prayer, mystical songs and dance.
Witnesses spoke of seeing a "pyramid" of people who were asphyxiated or trampled in a stampedethrough a passageway around 3 meters (10 feet) wide. Medics said the casualties, including children, were concentrated in the men's section of the gender-segregated festival.
Crowds had packed the slopes of Mount Meron in northern Israel in defiance of warnings to maintain social distancing against the spread of COVID-19.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...us-crush-israeli-bonfire-festival-2021-04-29/
Israeli medical workers sought on Friday to identify many of the 45 people crushed to death overnight at an overcrowded religious festival, where some of the victimswent unnoticed until the PA system sounded an appeal to disperse.
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations that include all-night prayer, mystical songs and dance.
Witnesses spoke of seeing a "pyramid" of people who were asphyxiated or trampled in a stampedethrough a passageway around 3 meters (10 feet) wide. Medics said the casualties, including children, were concentrated in the men's section of the gender-segregated festival.
Crowds had packed the slopes of Mount Meron in northern Israel in defiance of warnings to maintain social distancing against the spread of COVID-19.
