At Least 8 Dead After Panic at Astroworld Festival in Texas During Travis Scott Opening Night Set With Drake

Not less than eight folks have died and 17 others, together with a 10-year-old little one, have been transported to the hospital after being trampled at a panic-fueled stampede Saturday night time in Houston, Texas. The crush occurred in the course of the opening-night set of Astroworld Pageant founder Travis Scott, whose livestream was halted because the panic ensued. Greater than 300 of the 50,000 folks in attendance had been reportedly handled at a subject hospital on the grounds.

Police say not less than 11 of these injured suffered cardiac arrest after being crushed by a crowd making an attempt to flee a but unknown supply of panic throughout Scott’s set, which featured a particular look from Drake. “We had scores of people that had been injured,” Houston Hearth Chief Sam Peña informed reporters early Saturday morning. He stated the mass casualty incident occurred at round 9:15 p.m. native time when the group started to “compress towards the entrance of the stage,” in keeping with CNN. “Individuals started to fall out, develop into unconscious and it created further panic,” he added.

Chief Lt. Larry Satterwhite, who was working close to the stage, described the scene to reporters. “It looks as if it occurred with simply over the course of some minutes. Abruptly we had a number of folks down on the bottom experiencing some kind of cardiac arrest or some kind of medical episode. We instantly began doing CPR.”

He stated medical workers onsite had been so overwhelmed they needed to ask folks within the crowd to manage CPR to revive injured concertgoers.

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