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Due to the Itaewon disaster in Seoul, large-scale crushing accidents around the world are receiving attention again.
In Indonesia on the 1st, more than 100 people were crushed to death in the process of suppressing a riot on a football field and a disaster occurred during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2015.
This was reported by the journalist Yang Il-hyuk.
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On the 1st, in a professional football match in Indonesia, 125 people were killed and hundreds were injured in a riot by the crowd.
After the defeat of the home team, spectators who broke into the stadium attacked the players, threw objects and assaulted the riot police.
As a result, police fired tear gas at the stadium, spectators and swung clubs to suppress it, and a large crowd of spectators rushed to the exit immediately, resulting in a major crushing accident.
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The deadliest football stadium disaster in history was the 1964 Olympic qualifier match between Peru and Argentina in Lima, Peru.
During the match, as crowds rushed to the stadium, the police fired tear gas and sent fans running away by entangling themselves, killing 328 people.
In 2001, in Ghana’s capital Accra, when crowds got excited during a club football game, police fired tear gas and crowds fell, killing 126 people.
In April last year, 45 people were killed and more than 150 injured in a crushing accident at a Jewish religious assembly in Israel.
Dozens of people fell down the stairs as the event attendees were moving, resulting in a huge crushing accident.
In September 2015, at least 2,110 people were killed in a crushing accident during a pilgrimage to Mecca, the holy city of Islam, in Saudi Arabia, the Associated Press reported.
The Saudi government officially announced the death toll at 769, but the Associated Press reported that this was the result of the aggregation of death toll data by governments around the world.
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