At least 8 people died and dozens injured in the crowd during a music festival in the southern United States, the Astroworld music festival. This is what the firefighters of Houston. According to local press reports, around 9:15 pm local time (3:15 am in Italy) the crowd attending the first evening of the festival, about 50 thousand people, began to move towards the stage. Houstn fire chief Samuel Pena he explained that the panic began to spread when the people in the front rows felt crushed. The show was stopped as soon as it became clear that the situation was deteriorating.
Of the 17 wounded transported to hospital, 11 had suffered cardiac arrest, Pena said. Already in the phases preceding the start of the demonstration, there was an accident due to the crowd, with several injured at the entrance, when a mass of people overwhelmed one of the areas where security checks were carried out. The 100,000 tickets available for the Astroworld festival had sold out in an hour at the time of presales last May. The highly anticipated festival, organized by rapper Travis Scott, it was in its third edition after the 2020 one was skipped due to the pandemic.
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