Stampede in Cambodia

When I asked my fellow Torch students for ideas to write my blog about, my friend Jessica Hoffen had quite the answer. During the water festival in Cambodia's capital in late November, hundreds were killed in the panic that followed when a few people were electrocuted on a bridge. The crowd ran and either drowned jumping off the bridge, were suffocated, or trampled. This event was utterly shocking to me not just because of the scale of the tragedy, but the way this occurred. I am confused as to how so many people could be driven to such hysteria and no one was able to help. Furthermore, I got way too many results when typing "stampede" into cnn.com.I couldn't help but think of the death last year that occurred in our own country from a stampede, on Black Friday. Need I say more?