Mehdi Moussaïd, a researcher in crowd habits on the Max Planck Institute for Human Growth, watched publicly out there movies of the crush and “noticed what I usually see in these sorts of accidents — there have been many individuals, too many individuals in relation to the out there area. [This is] measured by density, so the variety of individuals per sq. meter.”
On this case, as in others he’s studied, he thinks there have been about eight to 10 individuals per sq. meter.
“At that degree of density, it’s no shock that the primary few individuals start to faint, as a result of they’re too tight they usually can now not breathe,” he mentioned. “And if this continues, and that’s what occurred, then all of the individuals in that zone will now not have sufficient oxygen, even after they faint, and can die one after the opposite.”
