Phnom Pénh : Cambodia
Nov 24, 2010
By richwebnews
A relative of a stampede victim mourns at the Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh
Cambodia stampede ranks second worst stampede recorded in the last ten years. Cambodia's Water Festival in royal palace in Phnom Penh was attended by an estimated 2 million revelers in which the Cambodia stampede took place on the newly built Rainbow bridge. An initial investigation into a stampede at a festival in the Cambodian capital that killed hundreds of revelers initially concluded it was set off when a crowded bridge started swaying and caused mass panic. Cambodian Information Minister said as of Wednesday the official toll was 351 dead and 395 injured.
Deaths from human stampedes occur primarily from massive chest compression, one survivor who lost his brother of the Cambodia stampede recounts, "There was no air, I could not breathe. I got pushed to the side of the bridge, people were falling all around, on to my arm, and I had to let go."
Human stampedes most often occur during religious pilgrimages and professional sporting and music events. They also often occur in times of mass panic, as a result of a fire or explosion, as people try to get away. In the last ten years Wikipedia recorded all the stampede that occurs in the last ten years, Cambodia stampede ranks second worst in the 21st century:
Top 10 list of worst stampede in 21st Century
1. August 31, 2005: 1000 people were killed in a Baghdad bridge stampede
2. November 22, 2010: Cambodia stampede occured during a water festival near Cambodia's royal palace in Phnom Penh killed at least 351 people. (death toll confirmed as of Wednesday)
3. January 12, 2006: 345 killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the devil.
4. January 2005: 265 people were killed as Hindu pilgrims stampede near a remote temple in Maharashtra, India.
5. February 2004: 251 people were killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the devil.
6. August 3, 2008: At least 162 people were killed and 47 injured in a stampede at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh in mountainous northern India after a rain shelter collapsed, which worshipers mistakenly took to be a landslide.
7. September 30, 2008: 147 people were killed during the Chamunda Devi stampede at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, India. The tragedy may have been triggered by a rumor that a bomb was planted in the temple complex. Local authorities, however, blamed steep, slippery slopes leading to the temple.
8. May 2001: 126 killed at a football match stampede in Accra, Ghana after police fired tear gas at rioters.
9. February 20, 2003: 100 killed in The Station nightclub fire, many of them trampled.
10. February 4, 2006: 74 people were killed in the PhilSports Arena stampede in the Philippines. The place was the location of the first year anniversary of ABS-CBN's Wowowee.
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