(Reuters) - At least eight people were killed and many others injured in a crush at the opening night of rapper Travis Scott s Astroworld music festival triggered by a surge of fans pushing toward the stage, officials said on Saturday. Here is a list of some of the worst stampedes over the last three decades: April 1989: Ninety-six people were killed and at least 200 injured in Britain s worst sports disaster after a crowd surge crushed packed fans against barriers at the English F.A. Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield. July 1990: Inside Saudi Arabia s al-Muaissem tunnel near the Muslim holy city of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims were crushed to death during Eid al-Adha, Islam s most important feast, at the end of the annual haj pilgrimage. May 1994: A stampede near Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia during haj killed 270 in the area where pilgrims hurl stones at piles of rocks symbolising the devil. April 1998: One hundred and nine
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