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Israel stampede: Horrific moment thousands scramble to escape crush as 44 killed

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Harrowing video shows worshippers desperately trying to escape a stampede that left 44 dead and more than 150 injured at an overcrowded religious festival in Israel.

Footage shows chaos and captures panicked screams as Lag B'Omer bonfire festivalgoers are caught in a crush in a tightly packed walkway, where victims were asphyxiated or trampled.

Small children were reported to be among the dead as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the tragedy as a "heavy disaster".

Videos showed Ultra-Orthodox men clambering through gaps in sheets of torn corrugated iron to escape the crush. Later, bodies lay on stretchers in a corridor, covered in foil blankets.

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