Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "2021 Meron crowd crush" in English language version.
The exact cause of the disaster is still not clear, but witness accounts and videos posted on social media suggested that some people had fallen down stairs leading out of a narrow passageway packed by hundreds of worshippers trying to exit the site, as a surge of people came down upon those ahead of them who had fallen, being trampled and asphyxiated.
The exit stairs were covered in candles on Sunday, some arranged in the shape of the number 45 – for the 45 people, many of them children, who didn't make it out to that covered walkway, who were crushed to death on the stairs as masses of people fell on and trampled one another at 1 a.m. Friday.
