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2005 Baghdad bridge stampede

2005 CE · Iraq, Asia · Disaster

2005 Baghdad bridge stampede
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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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