Sentence examples for human stampede from inspiring English sources

Portrayed entirely without sentiment, everyone here is equally abject, from the crushed victim of a human stampede to the starving baby playing in its own feces.

Diouf's mother died in September after being caught up in a human stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

This marks yet another snafu on the film's set; back in August, a planned human stampede became a true danger zone, and Pitt had to swoop in and rescue a woman who was being trampled on by the running extras.

L'Estrange was an early balloonist, and attempted a series of flights in the early 1880s - one being successful, one ending in Australia's first emergency parachute descent, and the last culminating in a massive fireball causing property damage, personal injury and a human stampede.

"Do they continue following their dream under extraordinary circumstances or do they get out?" The dream of achieving instant wealth with a pick and shovel lies at the heart of "Klondike" as it re-creates the human stampede to Canada's northwest wilderness in the late 1890s.

In modern times, human stampedes, fires, heatstroke and the collapse of grandstands or other structures have killed more people than has disease at global gatherings.

According to a recent paper published in the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, reports of human stampedes have more than doubled in each of the past two decades.

In an email to The Post, crowd safety and risk analysis specialist G. Keith Still explained that actual human "stampedes" are rarely observed.

Most of them are funnelled through a checkpoint at Lo Wu in a process that is unpleasant at best and dangerous at worst in August alone, 19 people were injured in the human stampedes.

Various empirical studies have analyzed crowd behaviors during mass gatherings and identified critical, potentially dangerous situations: A focus in literature has been the investigation of human stampedes [15 19].

The mobile phone app, which allows users to capture, battle and train 3-D virtual creatures, has taken the world by storm, even causing human stampedes and stopping traffic.