Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Terrifying scenes as 40 people are injured in beer festival stampede after someone shouts 'ISIS' for joke

Terrifying scenes as 40 people are injured in beer festival stampede after someone shouts 'ISIS' for joke - Mirror Online:
"These were the terrifying scenes as hundreds of people ran for their lives at a beer festival after someone shouted 'ISIS' for a joke.
More than 40 people were injured in the stampede at the Beer Fest in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina after apparently a gun was fired and many wrongly thought it was a terror attack.
After hearing the name of the terror group being called in the crowd, people started to run away as fast as they could from the square in which the festival was held.
Two people were seriously injured in the stampede, and there were also unconfirmed reports in local media that a boy aged 15 had been shot.
It is not uncommon for people in Kosovo to own a gun, so a weapon may have been fired in the panic.
According to some estimates, about 20 percent of the country owns a gun.
In a video of the stampede, people can be seen pushing each other after the panic broke out.
In one case, a man can be seen treading on another man as he flees.
People were hiding in alleys and smashing their way into buildings to look for a place to hide..."

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