Israel declares national day of mourning after 45 killed in religious stampede

Israel’s prime minister has declared Sunday a national day of mourning after dozens were killed and 150 injured at a religious bonfire festival. 

Medical teams are now working to identify the 45 people crushed to death in the stampede on the slopes of Israel’s Mount Meron, with children among the dead.

Witnesses spoke of seeing a “pyramid” of people who were asphyxiated or trampled in a passageway around 3 metres wide at the crowded event in the Galilee.

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews thronged to…