At least 45 crushed in stampede at religious festival

A crush at the Lag BaOmer religious festival at Mt. Meron in Israel left at least 45 dead and 150 more injured Friday morning, caused by participants crowding onto a slippery staircase in a packed corridor. NPR:

Witnesses said people were asphyxiated or trampled in the tightly packed corridor.

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