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A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel has killed at least 45 people and injured about 150, medical officials said.
One of the country’s deadliest civilian disasters 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.
Avraham Leibe told Israeli public broadcaster Kan that a crush of people trying to descend the mountain caused “general bedlam” on a slippery metal slope followed by stairs. “Nobody managed to halt,” he said from a hospital bed. “I saw one after the other fall.”
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Crush on Mt. Meron is one of most difficult civil disasters Israel has ever known, emergency service chief says
From CNN s Andrew Carey
Ultra-Orthodox Jews look at the scene on April 30 following the Lag B Omer festival on Mount Meron in Israel. Sebastian Scheiner/AP
Israel s emergency service director General Eli Bin said on Friday that the Mount Meron crush is one of the most difficult civil disasters the State of Israel has ever known. It is difficult to contain the magnitude of the disaster, Bin, who heads Israel s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service, added in a Friday statement.
By Press Association 2021
Israeli security officials and rescuers carry a body of a victim who died during Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mt Meron in northern Israel
More than 40 people have been killed in a stampede at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel, local authorities said.
Motti Bukchin, spokesman for the Zaka ambulance service, told Channel 12 TV on Friday that 44 people were killed in the incident.
The disaster occurred at Mount Meron at the main celebrations of Lag BaOmer, a holiday when tens of thousands of people, mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews, gather to honour Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a 2nd century sage and mystic who is buried there.