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"Three of my friends died today. I used to hang out with them every weekend in Itaewon and now they're dead," one Seoul resident somberly told local media.

More than 150 people, mostly in their teens and 20s, died in a stampede during Halloween festivities in Seoul on Saturday night,

South Korea's president convened an emergency meeting, and Seoul's mayor cut short a trip to Europe to return to address the crisis.

Police fired tear gas after fans invaded the pitch in Indonesia, triggering a stampede and cases of suffocation, authorities said.

Bipartisan lawmakers are investigating Live Nation's role in the tragedy, citing the company's "long line of other tragic events and safety violations."

"The radio wasn't working, the music was way too loud," he said. "I had called for backup and help so many times and it was just not going through."

Travis Scott's Astroworld concert ended in tragedy on Friday night, when a crowd surge led to a deadly stampede, leaving eight attendees dead.

A stampede at the festival resulted in the deaths of eight people and injured many more.

"Prevention isn't achievable in my opinion, the risk will always be there, however, the risk can be reduced," a crowd safety consultant told Newsweek.

"Just one person messing up, the show is over," warned staff over the speaker system before Playboi Carti's LA show the day after eight died at Astroworld.

Eight attendees of the Astroworld Festival died, and scores more left injured, following a deadly stampede in Houston on Friday.

The woman feared getting "kangaroo kicked to the face" as she came across the stampede while walking along a cliff in Australia.

Violence erupted in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces after the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.

"Many of them died from being trampled on during a stampede while people were looting items," the KwaZulu-Natal province's premier said.

The government reportedly had a plan that could have prevented the stampede, but it was never implemented.

A stampede at a religious festival on Mount Meron Friday morning killed 45 people and injured over 150 others.

Ironically, those emotions of blaming "the other" are so much easier to handle than sadness.

At least 45 people were killed Friday during an ultra-Orthodox festival in Mount Meron, Israel, when crowds of people began falling on a slippery ramp, leading to a stampede.

At least 40 people were killed in a stampede near Israel's Mount Meron while a large group of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews were celebrating the religious festival Lag BaOmer.

The footage was captured a week after a group of tourists caused another stampede by a river in Lamar Valley.

The event was part of a 33-hour shopping marathon at the mall, which featured a slogan that's now taken on a darker meaning: "Shop until you drop."

More than 1,000 people turned up to the event to claim just 200 free meal coupons.

Thousands of mourners were in attendance for the funeral procession of Muthuvel Karunanidhi, an Indian politician who died at the age of 94 on Tuesday.

New health centers are open, and responders have practiced their response to emergency situations.

Some 350,000 people showed up for a concert expecting less then half that figure.

Iran says Saudi officials should be tried in an international court for what it called a crime.

The Supreme Leader of Iran has accused the Saudi government of "mismanagement"

Experts and Saudi authorities disagree over what caused the tragedy in which 717 people died.

Most of the dead were suffocated when the crowd stampeded after police used teargas.