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2021-04-30 12:06:00 GMT2021-04-30 20:06:00(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JERUSALEM, April 30 (Xinhua) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday declared Sunday as a national day of mourning, following the stampede on Thursday night that killed 44 people and injured at least 150 others.
Caused by overcrowding, the tragedy happened in Mount Meron in northern Israel, during a festival celebrated every year on the eve of the Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer. More than 100,000 people participated in the festival, most of them ultra-Orthodox Jews. Let us all unite with the grief of the families and pray for the recovery of the wounded, Netanyahu said in a statement issued by the Prime Minister s Office.
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Stampede at big Israeli religious festival leads to ‘mass casualty incident’
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 29, 2021
Israeli security officials and rescuers carry a body of a victim who died during a Lag Ba Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo)AP
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JERUSALEM More than 100 people were injured, dozens critically, in a stampede at a Jewish religious gathering popular with ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel attended by tens of thousands of people, Israel’s main rescue service said early Friday. Israeli media reported dozens of deaths.
Magen David Adom tweeted that it was treating 103 people, including 38 in critical condition. Israeli media had earlier reported that a grandstand collapsed, but the rescue service said all the injuries happened in a stampede.
Published on: Friday, April 30, 2021
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Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021. The director of an Israeli ambulance service has confirmed that nearly 40 people died in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel. (Ishay Jerusalemite/Behadrei Haredim via AP)
JERUSALEM: A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 45 people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country’s deadliest civilian disasters.
The stampede began when large numbers of people thronged a narrow tunnel-like passage during the event, according to witnesses and video footage. People began falling on top of each other near the end of the walkway, as they descended slippery metal stairs, witnesses said.