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.
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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.