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Montreal’s Jewish community is reeling after two young members were among at least 45 killed in a stampede during a religious festival in Israel on Friday.
Officials said it appears the dead had been asphyxiated or trampled at the Lag B’Omer event in Mount Meron in Galilee.
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Dovi Steinmetz, 21, from the Darlington district in Côte-des-Neiges Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, and Outremont native Shraga Gestetner, 35, a father of five, were killed.
David Levy, Israel’s consul general for Montreal and eastern Canada, sent prayers to the families of the victims.