A stampede at the Nyamiha metro station in Minsk, Belarus on 30 May 1999, killed 53 people, mostly young women.

A group of more than 2000 people, mostly teenagers and schoolchildren, gathered near the Minsk Sports Palace to watch a performance by then-popular Soviet rock band Mango-Mango [ru] held in celebration of the radio station Mir FM's second anniversary.

[1][2] The stampede was funneled into the blocked underpass of the metro station and many people (mostly young women) were killed in the ensuing crowd crush when they started slipping on the wet pavement, falling, and trampling each other.

[3][4][page needed][5] The incident was compounded by the fact that much of the crowd had been drinking during the concert, so they did not realize that they were stomping on the corpses of the victims.

[1] Many eyewitnesses to the disaster believed that it could have been prevented if the police had not allowed such a large group to rush into the metro station at the same time.