Akashi

Fireworks festival · Akashi, Japan · 2001

11 lives lost

130,000 people. One narrow footbridge to the station. Guards called for police backup — and were refused.

Memorial "Omou" at the site of the Akashi pedestrian bridge disaster — Memorial "Omou" at the site of the Akashi pedestrian bridge disaster · Cubical quad, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: CNN — Ten die in crowd crush after fireworks in Japan · Wikipedia — Akashi pedestrian bridge accident · Wikimedia Commons — memorial at the Akashi bridge disaster site