Global & Disaster Medicine

Fear of stampede when a crowd hears “pop.”

NYT

“……By the next day, police commanders had determined that it had not been a falling barrier that had started the original stampede. It was, instead, a fight between two people near the stage. As concertgoers scattered, they stepped on empty water bottles, causing loud popping sounds...….”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siNwROX2RLs


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