On Monday, a stampede in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh killed around 339 people, on the last day of the water festival.
Below is a flashback of the some of the most terrible stampedes in the world, in the last two decades.
July 1990 – 1,426 Hajj pilgrims are crushed to death on the Eid-ul-Adha festival, inside Al-Muaissem tunnel, in the vicinity of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
May 1994 – 270 people die near the Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia, where the Hajj pilgrims throw stones at a rock symbolizing the Satan.
April 1998 – 119 Muslim Hajj pilgrims die a crushing death in Saudi Arabia.
May 2001 – nearly 126 people are killed in Ghana, at Accra’s main stadium, when rioting fans were pelted with teargas by police.
February 2004 – some 251 Muslims Hajj pilgrims are killed in a stampede near the Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia.
January 2005 – 265 Hindu pilgrims, several of them women and children, die in a stampede in a remote temple in India’s Maharashtra state.
August 2005 – Nearly 1,005 Shi’ite Muslims die when the stampede jumps off a bridge amid rumors of a suicide bomber in the crowd.
January 2006 – In Saudi Arabia, some 362 Muslim Hajj Pilgrims are crushed to death at the eastern entrance of the Jamarat Bridge during a ritual of hitting the devil with stones.
February 2006 – Some 71 people die as they try to enter a popular TV game show at a stadium in Manila.
September 2006 – 51 people die as the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is holding a pre-election rally at a stadium in the province of Ibb.
August 2008 – At the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh state of India, rumors of a landslide trigger a stampede which kill at least 145.
September 2008 – 147 people die in India’s western town of Jodhpur, near the Chamunda temple.
March 2009 – 19 people were slain in a stampede at Felix Houphouet Boigny, a stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, during a world cup qualifier against Malawi.
February 2010 – some 26 people die and 40 other are injured in a stampede near a Mosque in the city of Timbuktu during the Muslim festival of Millad.
July 2010 – 19 people are killed and some 342 injured at the love parade techno festival in Duisburg, Germany.
November 2010 – at least 339 people are killed and nearly 329 injured during a stampede on a bridge in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.
Flashback: World’s most disastrous stampedes
On Monday, a stampede in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh killed around 339 people, on the last day of the water festival.
Below is a flashback of the some of the most terrible stampedes in the world, in the last two decades.
July 1990 – 1,426 Hajj pilgrims are crushed to death on the Eid-ul-Adha festival, inside Al-Muaissem tunnel, in the vicinity of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
May 1994 – 270 people die near the Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia, where the Hajj pilgrims throw stones at a rock symbolizing the Satan.
April 1998 – 119 Muslim Hajj pilgrims die a crushing death in Saudi Arabia.
May 2001 – nearly 126 people are killed in Ghana, at Accra’s main stadium, when rioting fans were pelted with teargas by police.
February 2004 – some 251 Muslims Hajj pilgrims are killed in a stampede near the Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia.
January 2005 – 265 Hindu pilgrims, several of them women and children, die in a stampede in a remote temple in India’s Maharashtra state.
August 2005 – Nearly 1,005 Shi’ite Muslims die when the stampede jumps off a bridge amid rumors of a suicide bomber in the crowd.
January 2006 – In Saudi Arabia, some 362 Muslim Hajj Pilgrims are crushed to death at the eastern entrance of the Jamarat Bridge during a ritual of hitting the devil with stones.
February 2006 – Some 71 people die as they try to enter a popular TV game show at a stadium in Manila.
September 2006 – 51 people die as the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is holding a pre-election rally at a stadium in the province of Ibb.
August 2008 – At the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh state of India, rumors of a landslide trigger a stampede which kill at least 145.
September 2008 – 147 people die in India’s western town of Jodhpur, near the Chamunda temple.
March 2009 – 19 people were slain in a stampede at Felix Houphouet Boigny, a stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, during qualification match for the world cup against Malawi.
February 2010 – some 26 people die and 40 other are injured in a stampede near a Mosque in the city of Timbuktu during the Muslim festival of Millad.
July 2010 – 19 people are killed and some 342 injured at the love parade techno festival in Duisburg, Germany.
November 2010 – at least 339 people are killed and nearly 329 injured during a stampede on a bridge in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.
