India temple stampede takes 113 lives
GenevaLunch News Officials in the western Indian state of Rajasthan say that 113 people have died and at least 150 are injured, some very seriously, after a stampede set off by some people lost their...
View ArticleEleven die in Moroccan music festival stampede
GenevaLunch News Eleven people died in Rabat, Morocco Saturday 23 May, the closing night of the eight-day Mawazine music festival in Morocco, but details about what caused the stampede are sketchy,...
View ArticleCôte d’Ivoire fined by Fifa for stadium collapse that killed 22
GenevaLunch News Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Fifa, the Swiss-based international football federation, is fining Côte d’Ivoire CHF50,000 and enforcing several preventive measures before the next...
View ArticleEight students die in China school stampede
GenevaLunch News Eight students have died and 26 are injured, the result of a stampede in a middle school stairwell in Hunan province, China. Authorities say that a student tripped and fell as students...
View ArticleDuisberg, Germany love parade stampede kills 15
GenevaLunch News At least 15 people died when a stampede broke out at Germany’s love parade Saturday 24 July in Duisberg, Germany. Panic appears to have been the source of the stampede inside a tunnel...
View ArticleDeath toll rising rapidly in Phnom Penh stampede
GenevaLunch News A stampede on a bridge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has killed at least 339 people, with as many wounded the country’s prime minister told the nation on state public television. Reuters,...
View ArticleFires in Brazil club, Venezuela prison kill scores
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The death toll is rapidly rising and at 21:30 Swiss time was at 240 people, from a nightclub fire in Santa Maria, a city of 250,000 people in southern Brazil near...
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