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Originally posted by Sparhawk
It's what happens when you get 2 million people in such a cramped space. I'd say that the religious nature of it is completely unrelated, just ask any fire marshall - one thing goes wrong in a crowd like that, and panic spreads like wildfire.
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I've been in crowds of over a million people and there were not deaths like this. Its the nature of the event in this case where everyone is pushing to get to one spot which causes the problem, not just the size of the crowd.