10 children, teens among 45 dead in Israel festival stampede
Four Americans were also among those killed.
Associated Press
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The body of Menachem Knoblowitz, 21, from Borough Park, Brooklyn in the United States, who died during Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, is displayed during his funeral in Jerusalem on Saturday, May 1 2021. A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed dozens of people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
JERUSALEM — At least 10 children and teens younger than 18 were among 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews killed in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel, according to a partial list of names published Saturday as the identification of victims in Israel’s deadliest civilian disaster continued.