Israel
By Hamodia Staff
Updated Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:07 pm
YERUSHALAYIM -
Updated Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:07 pm
Emergency personnel tending to injured in Meron. (Ichud Hatzalah)
Over 150 people in Meron were injured with dozens of people succumbing to their injuries during the Lag BaOmer festivities.
Approximate location of the tragedy.
Ichud Hatzalah performed CPR on a number of students who were injured in the area where the Toldos Aharon Rebbe,
shlita, was conducting a
hadlakah in Meron. A group of people were descending some steps leading to a restricted area when the crowd surged forward and people began tumbling on one another, causing many to be crushed by the stampede.