Dermot Barr

Aug 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dermot Barr |John Drury |Linda Bell |Nils Devynck

1 INTRODUCTION Recent years have seen a number of dramatic incidents involving crowds of people fleeing from supposed terrorist attacks. There were 126 such false alarms in Great Britain in the period 2010–2019 (Barr et al., 2022), mostly comprising spontaneous evacuations from shopping centres and transport hubs (e.g., KentOnline, 2018; York, 2018). Similar incidents were also reported in Europe in the same period (Bartholomew, 2016).