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A look at some of the world’s major crowd disasters

FILE - Bodies of people who died in a crush in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage lie in a street, Sept. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/File) FILE - The crowd watches as Travis Scott performs at Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 in Houston. Several people died and numerous others were injured in what officials described as a surge of the crowd at the music festival while Scott was performing. (Jamaal Ellis/Houston Chronicle via AP, File) FILE - A security guard and an unidentified man look at an area where several people were killed as they were caught in a surging crowd entering Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum for a concert by The Who, Dec. 3, 1979. (AP Photo/Brian Horton, File) FILE - Cincinnati Police and rescue workers attend to two bodies of people crushed to death outside the fateful The Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 3, 1979. (Ed Reinke/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, File) FILE - Muslim pilgrims and first responders gather around bodies of people crushed in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage, Sept. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Stewards and supporters tend and care for wounded supporters on the field at Hillsborough Stadium, in Sheffield, England, April 15, 1989. (AP Photo, File)
A look at some of the world’s major crowd disasters