British victim of Israel stampede: 24-year-old man from Manchester is named among the 45 people killed in crush amid claims Orthodox Jewish leaders put pressure on organisers NOT to limit numbers at festival
Insiders claimed there was political pressure on police to hold the event at any cost ahead of deadly crush
Reports say the head of Shas, a Haredi religious political party in Israel, asked there to be no limit of numbers
A total of 45 people were killed in the stampede at Mount Meron, Israel on Thursday, with at least 150 injured
Moshe Bergman, from Manchester,
Tragedia de Merón: Las familias debieron apresurarse a identificar y enterrar a las víctimas antes de Shabat
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U S citizens were among those killed in Israeli festival disaster
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Dozens of people have died in a crush at a Lag Ba Omer event in northern Israel, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a heavy disaster .
At least 44 people died, the Magen David Adom rescue service and a hospital source said. Witnesses said the dead included children. Zaki Heller, spokesman for the Magen David Adom rescue service, said 150 people had been hospitalised, with six in critical condition.
“We have 38 dead at the scene but there are more at the hospital,” an MDA spokesman said, while a source at the northern Ziv hospital said they had received at least six fatalities.
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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.