What the records say
- When
- 31 Aug 2005
- Kind
- Crowd crush
- Coordinates
- 33.37° N, 44.36° E
- Description
- Crowd crush incident
- Deaths
- 953
- Injured
- 815
- Cause
- crowd collapses and crushes
2005 Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster
2005 crowd crush in Iraq
The Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster occurred on August 31, 2005 when 965 people died following a panic, and subsequent crowd crush, on the Al-Aaimmah Bridge, which crosses the Tigris river in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Al-Aimmah bridge disaster in Baghdad, Iraq kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Estampida sobre el puente Al-Ayma, en Bagdad, capital de Irak, donde fallecen cerca de 2000 personas cuando intentaban huir de una supuesta alarma por amenaza…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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