Stampede at religious bonfire festival in Israel, dozens dead

Dozens of people lost their lives in Israel in a stampede at a religious bonfire festival on Friday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his grief over the incident while referring to it as a "heavy disaster". Jews people had gathered at the Mount Meron tomb of the 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations, ignoring the warnings by the health authorities, when the incident happened.