At least eight people have died and many others have been rushed to the hospital after a crushing event at Astroworld Festival in Houston, US.
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Footage from Travis Scott\’s performance at this evening\’s concert showed ambulance carts making their way through the crowd whilst music continued.
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Travis Scott still performing as ambulance picks up the injured
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Other harrowing clips showed paramedics trying to perform CPR on people in the crowd.
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Several festival-goers have reported on social media that they felt \”squished\” or unable to breath properly at this evening\’s event.
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Police confirmed at a press conference this morning: \”We had at least eight confirmed fatalities tonight.
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\”And we had scores of individuals who were injured here in this event.
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\”At approximately 9/9.15 the crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage.
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\”The mass casualty event was triggered at around 9.38pm.\”
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They also said that 11 people were taken to hospital in cardiac arrest, but that they couldn\’t confirm the cause of death of the eight.
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It was also confirmed by Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo that some of the people transported to hospital were as young as ten.
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Reports and footage earlier showed hundreds of fans stampeding through ticket barriers at around 2pm, with some people being detained.
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There were even reports that some fans were trampled earlier as they pushed down fences, trying to get in to the 100,000 ticket sell-out event.
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The festival closed at 10pm on Friday but, according to ABC 13, police officers were seen putting up crime scene tape around the park in the early hours of Saturday.
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According to Fox 26 authorities treated it as a \”level two\” incident due to the sheer number of calls they received.
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Astroworld Festival is organised by Travis Scott, a Houston-based rapper. This year\’s event was the festival\’s third incarnation, having been cancelled last year due to Covid, and all 100,000 tickets sold out within an hour back in May.