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heartbreaking for their parents all the more so the manner in which their kids met their demise. :-(

mall collapse in 90's, 500 dead, 1000 injured.

ferry disaster - 200 die, captain saves himself

itaewon stampede - over a hundred die, mostly students. minimal police presence

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hurts that my homeland suffers so many man made disasters

this one still has me baffled. Not to downplay death, but I could understand a large rowdy crowd getting out of hand and a few people being trampled or something... but over 100?

It isn't a trampling. They squeeze in so tightly people are unable to inhale.

The energy moves through the crowd like it is a fluid. So the people that aren't super densely packed (usually in the back and far enough away from the danger that they don't know it is happening) are trying to push forward. That energy flows through the crowd, and if there are any choke points, like a narrowing of a corridor or a door or even a bend in the corridor, people will get stuck on it and then people get stuck on those people, and on and on. All the while, the stuck people are dying.

I understand that, but it is still baffling how this happened just out and about and not at a concert or something. I heard the crowd somehow moved into a alley with a dead end and then things went bad. But it's still baffling how that could have happened.

the videos are crazy, they're floating around reddit. i think when you see it, it's understandable. the alleyways are as wide as one line here in the US

The alley is relatively narrow and slopes downward. People at the end of the slope were the most impacted. In videos you can see that they fell and were unable to get back up so they became the bottleneck for the crowd.

Not that baffling if you take those details into consideration.