635 dead - Iraq

[SofaKingLiberal]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 635 people have been killed and 237 others injured in a stampede on a bridge near a Shiite mosque in northeastern Baghdad, police said.
According to witnesses, the panic started when someone screamed that a suicide bomber was in the crowd. Several people were seen throwing themselves off the bridge and into the Tigris River.

According to police, some people were crushed to death but most drowned.

The stampede took place at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday (3:30 a.m. EDT) near the Kadhimiya mosque.

Hours earlier, a mortar attack during an annual Shiite religious commemoration in the area killed seven people and wounded 36 others, police said.

According to authorities, three mortars landed around 8:15 a.m. (12:15 a.m. EDT) in the Kadhimiya neighborhood as thousands of Shiites gathered to commemorate the death of Imam Moussa al-Khadhem, a prominent figure in Shiite history who is buried at the Kadhimiya mosque.



http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.main/index.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. What?

More info please?

[lvx35]

5. Stampede.

BREAKING NEWS

At least 635 people killed, 237 injured as a crowd of Shiite pilgrims stampede on a bridge near a mosque in Baghdad, police say.

[AtomicKitten]

2. "incident" ???

do you mean the air strikes?

[maddezmom]

6. here's an AP link:Over 300 Dead in Bridge Stampede in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050831/wl_nm/iraq_stampede_deaths_dc

[AtomicKitten]

8. thanks

I posted before the initial post was edited.

[Supply Side Jesus]

3. thats the kind of headline

that just numbs you.
To grapple my mind around something like that is....very hard.

The same thing with seeing New Orleans under water. Spent a day there once...I can't imagine it being so...damaged.

[VolcanoJen]

4. More horrible news... LBN link here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1739398

[DS1]

7. wow

more effective than an actual suicide bomber :crazy:

[saigon68]

9. Happened in saudi a few years ago

A stampede killed about 1,500 on their way to witness a rock throwing

Link:http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2003/02/18/news_pf/Worldandnation/Stampede_deaths.shtml

July 2, 1990, Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 1,426 pilgrims killed in a stampede in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites. It is the worst hajj tragedy.

May 23, 1994, Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 270 killed in a stampede as worshipers surge during stoning of the devil ritual.

April 9, 1998, Mina, Saudi Arabia: About 180 trampled to death when panic erupted after several pilgrims fell off an overpass.

March 5, 2001, Mina, Saudi Arabia: 35 killed in stampede during stoning of the devil ritual.

March 31, 2001, Multan, Pakistan: 30 people killed when crowd of worshipers surged through the gates of a shrine.

Feb. 11, 2003, Mina, Saudi Arabia: 14 Muslim pilgrims trampled to death at a ritual near the end of the hajj pilgrimage.

[leftchick]

10. Hundreds Dead in Iraq and untold Hundreds Dead in NO

And the chimpass** eats cake and plays the guitar. Where is the fucking outrage??

I HATE bushworld**

:cry: