Baghdad Stampede Kills Hundreds

[Eli]

Holy crap.

CNN says:

Stampede in Baghdad: 635 dead

At least 635 people killed and 237 injured after Shiite pilgrims stampede while on a bridge near a mosque in northeastern Baghdad, police say.

Witnesses said there was panic after screams there was a suicide bomber, with hundreds falling to their deaths in the Tigris River after a railing on the bridge collapsed.

Apparently a few mortars were fired into the crowd and then the rumour about a suicide bomber started spreading.

This is crazy. 5 suicide bombers in the middle of the crowd would've killed less people than this single rumour.

[chequita guevara]

[Atahualpa]

635
And the rumor was probably a sarcastic joke

[Az]

Holy ****.

[VetLegion]

Unbelievable

[aneeshm]

[troll]Please , don't distract people from the New Orleans thing . They have the time for only one disaster at a time , and only NO matters , because it's in the USA .[/troll]


But more seriously , who here thinks that this will be covered in any real detail for any length of time ? Isn't the US media supposed to be totally centred on comparatively trivial things ( like that missing girl thing ( note that I am not trivialising the New Orleans flood ) ) as long as they're in the USA , and will mostly ignore even very important/large-scale events if they're outside ? I wager this will get some coverage for some time , then the media will return to NeOr , and stay there , sensationalising human suffering until the both the audience and the sufferers get sick of it .

[Solly]

It's Bush's fault.

[Az]

Actually, in a very weird, twisted way, it is.

[loinburger]

Six posts until the first off-topic rant. God I love this place.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by aneeshm
[troll]Please , don't distract people from the New Orleans thing . They have the time for only one disaster at a time , and only NO matters , because it's in the USA .[/troll]


But more seriously , who here thinks that this will be covered in any real detail for any length of time ? Isn't the US media supposed to be totally centred on comparatively trivial things ( like that missing girl thing ( note that I am not trivialising the New Orleans flood ) ) as long as they're in the USA , and will mostly ignore even very important/large-scale events if they're outside ? I wager this will get some coverage for some time , then the media will return to NeOr , and stay there , sensationalising human suffering until the both the audience and the sufferers get sick of it .

You live in India, and you think the loss of the US's major grain shipping port is trivial? What impact will it have in India when world grain prices increase?

[Sandman]

More money for Indian farmers?

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by aneeshm
I wager this will get some coverage for some time , then the media will return to NeOr , and stay there , sensationalising human suffering until the both the audience and the sufferers get sick of it .

Nah, from now on, this will get coverage forever. As any other event.

[Az]

@BeBro.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Sandman
More money for Indian farmers?

This isnt sugar or cotton, sandy, i think the economics play out differently. It would hurt grain importing nations. Though grain farmers within those nations might stand to benefit.

[Sandman]

I don't think India is a grain importer.