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Following is a short chronology of some of the worst stampedes in the last 20 years:

• March 1988: In Kathmandu, 70 fans are killed after a stampede towards locked exits in a hailstorm at Nepal's national soccer stadium, the country's worst civilian disaster.
• July 1990: 1,426 pilgrims are crushed to death inside al-Muaissem tunnel near Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The accident occurs on Eid al-Adha (The Feast of Sacrifice), Islam's most important feast at the end of the annual Haj pilgrimage.
• May 1994: In Saudi Arabia, a stampede near Jamarat Bridge kills 270 where pilgrims hurl stones at piles of rocks symbolising the devil.
• April 1998: One hundred and nineteen Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death at the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
• May 2001: In Ghana, 126 people are killed after a stampede at Accra's main soccer stadium when police fire teargas at rioting fans in one of Africa's worst soccer disasters.
• February 2004: A stampede kills 251 Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia near Jamarat Bridge during the ritual stoning of the devil at the annual Haj pilgrimage.
• January 2005: At least 265 Hindu pilgrims, including several women and children, are killed near a remote temple in India's Maharashtra state.
• August 2005: At least 1,005 people die in Iraq when Shi'ites stampede off a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad panicked by rumours of a suicide bomber in the crowd.
• January 2006: Three hundred and sixty-two Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death at the eastern entrance of Mena's Jamarat Bridge when pilgrims jostled to perform the stoning ritual between noon and sunset.
• February 2006: Seventy-one people are killed at a stadium in Manila as they scrambled to get into a popular Philippine television game show.
• September 2006: At least 51 people are killed in a Yemeni stadium where President Ali Abdullah Saleh was holding a pre-election rally in the southern province of Ibb.
• August 2008: Rumours of a landslide triggers a stampede by pilgrims in India at the Naina Devi temple, in Bilaspur district, in Himachal Pradesh. At least 145 people were killed and more than 100 people injured.