Rapper Travis Scott’s
most recent live performance ended in a disaster as fans surged towards the stage
during a Houston music festival. The incident generated panic and ended up
taking the lives of eight people with a number of concert goers sustained other
injuries.

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We take a moment to
look back on some of the world’s biggest crowd disasters:

October 20, 1982 – Football
supporters had gathered at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow to witness a clash
between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem (a team of the Netherlands). The match ended
with 66 people dying while leaving the venue.

May 28, 1985 – Violence
erupted amongst the fans of English giants Liverpool and Italian giants
Juventus after the 1985 European Cup Final at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, 39
people died.

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April 15, 1989 – As a
result of overcrowding at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, 97
people died while hundreds of others sustained injuries.

July 2, 1990 – 1,426
Muslim Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia died in and around a tunnel leading from Mecca
to Mina during the annual hajj.

November 23, 1994 – A
political protest in Nagpur became the victim of a panicked crush with 113
people dead as a result.

May 9, 2001 – The police
resorted to throwing tear gas in order to control a rowdy crowd at a stadium in
Ghana’s capital Accra which killed more than 120 people.

January 25, 2005 – 265
Hindu pilgrims lost their lives near the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra
after panic spread amongst the crowd.

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February 4, 2006 – A panicked
crowd at the PhilSports Arena stampede in Manila, Philippines ended up killing 78
people.

July 4, 2010 – 21 people
died and over 650 were injured at the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg,
Germany due to poor planning. A packed tunnel was the only access point to the
venue.

January 27, 2013 –
Over 200 people lost their lives in a fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa
Maria, Brazil.

September 24, 2015 –
2,411 pilgrims lost their lives while attending the hajj in Saudi Arabia