NEW DELHI: The terms, crowd crush and stampede, are often used interchangeably to describe chaotic and deadly crowd incidents, but experts make a clear distinction between the two. A crowd crush ...

HATHRAS, (India): Survivors of India’s deadliest crowd crush in over a decade on Wednesday ... Officials suggested the stampede was triggered when worshippers tried to gather soil from the ...

Twenty-one people died in the resulting crowd surge. And this month in Indonesia, 131 people were killed when tear gas was fired into a half-locked stadium, triggering a crush at the exits.