joining us now from jerusalem it is correspondent tanya kramer tania why did this happen. well more more details are now of course coming in one is on the social media all these videos but also i witness have been talking here to the local media and from rescue services now the rescue service has said that the crash started to happen this time peter around 1 am in the early morning local time in the middle of the night when people started to go through a very small pathway that apparently has been closed in with metal now there they were trying to go it was a little bit up. and slipping on stairs and then started basically to fall over just basically people trampling each other when i gave it misses when i witness said there was no place to go people were just for laying on each other and the 1st calls for help were also received by them some had said you know because of the barriers that were around you know the crowd was just not able to go anywhere when this happened and what are the biggest challenges now because i mean we've seen the death toll in the dozens already w

and let's get more we are joined by correspondent tanya kramer it's roussillon tania what more do we know. well as you said the death toll has risen in the past hours so we know that 38 people have been crushed to death there on site had been evacuated from there 6 more have died of their injuries in hospitals now a lot of those injured we're talking about roughly 160 people where to 2 hospitals in the northern part of the country around mt meron and some of them are critically injured so i mean expecting the death toll might be rising even more now the 1st distress calls were received from the area that's according to rescue services in the early morning and what has been described now as we also heard in the report as one of the worst tragedies in the country's history also phone lines and we're open now hotlines to people to look for their loved ones because this was so overcrowded that all the mobile services of course i went down and people are still being guided back now to the buses and to come back also here to jerusalem and the law as we can hearing i mean this is a celebrat