🚔 Can artificial intelligence help event security and police forces in managing public safety at large-scale gatherings? We speak to Professor Tom Kirchmaier of the Centre for Economic Performance to discover more about a new crowd control technology that is being developed in collaboration with Greater Manchester Police, aiming to predict and prevent crowd crush incidents before they turn deadly. 🔎 More research about #AI: lse.ac.uk/ai | The London School of Economics and Political Science -

Four people were killed and several others injured in an apparent crowd crush outside Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, when large crowds gathered for free meals being handed out by a well-known chef. | Al Jazeera English

4.2K views · 34 reactions | More than 80 people have been killed in a crush in Yemen’s capital Sanaa while queuing at a school entrance to receive aid gifts of 5,000 Yemeni rials ($20 US). Armed Houthis, who control Yemen, reportedly fired shots into the air in an attempt to control the crowd, sparking the crush. According to the UN, almost two-thirds of Yemen’s population lives below the poverty line in what it calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis | Middle East Eye | Facebook