We arrived at 5:00 a.m. at the National Stadium prepared to see as many people as possible, screen them, and make appointments for them to board the ship. I heard that there were about 4,000 people lined up outside the stadium, when the crowd pressed into the gate and people were crushed and trampled resulting in several injuries and one death. We abruptly stopped the screening, packed everything up and were told to evacuate the stadium immediately. It was devastating for the people who had been waiting all night to be seen and those who used most of their yearly wage to travel to the screening.
I was on the further side of the entrance gates doing registrations, so I was relatively unaware of the turbulent events at the gate. However, many volunteers formed a human chain to maintain control, but things just kept escalating. Some of the crew were also deeply traumatized by the events.
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