In the early morning of April 30 local time, a stampede occurred at a religious event in Meilong Mountain in northern Israel. The Israeli health department said that the accident has killed at least 45 people and injured more than 150 people.
Why does Israel still allow such a large-scale religious activities under the epidemic? And how did the stampede at the scene cause?
According to CN , at the time of the incident, about 50,000 to 100,000 people gathered in Meilong Mountain in northern Israel to celebrate the religious festival.
Although the Israeli Ministry of Health dissuaded the public not to attend this religious activity and reminded people that gathering activities would lead to the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, considering that the number of existing confirmed cases in Israel at that time was not high, and more than 58% of the country's population had been vaccinated with the new crown vaccine , this religious activity could still be carried out.
According to witnesses at the scene, a large number of people flocked into the passage at that time, and the ground in the passage became slippery because of sprinkling water. At first, some people slipped, and then more and more people fell to the ground, and the scene was in chaos. People tried to escape from the crowded passage, and the crowd even bent the railings of the passage, but the police who maintained order on the scene blocked the passage entrance.
According to Reuters , citing the description of witnesses at the scene, the crowded crowd piled up into a "pyramid" in the narrow passage, and the scene was in chaos, and painful screams came from the crowd. Half an hour later, many people were lifted out of the crowd by first responders on stretchers.
At present, official Israeli investigators are still investigating the cause of the accident.
Source: CCTV News Client
