stampede

Investigators are expected to examine the design of safety barriers and the use of crowd control in determining what led to a crush of spectators at rapper Travis Scott's Houston-based music festival that left eight people dead and hundreds more injured.

CHICAGO (AP) — Police said a false report of gunfire set off a stampede that trampled more than a dozen people at Chicago’s annual July 4 fireworks display Thursday at Navy Pier, where thousands of revelers had crowded the Lake Michigan shore. Three others were stabbed when a fight broke out after a group of […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A stampede at a soccer stadium in Congo’s capital on Sunday killed at least 15 people and injured more than a dozen, government officials said. The stampede at the Tata Raphael Stadium in Kinshasa happened toward the end of a match between two popular Congolese teams, AS Vita Club and TP […]