At Least 8 Dead at Houston Music Festival After Crowd Surge Causes ‘Panic’

At slightest 8 radical were killed and dozens much were injured astatine a euphony festival successful Houston connected Friday nighttime aft a ample assemblage “began to compress towards the beforehand of the stage,” the city’s occurrence main said astatine a quality conference.

The assemblage surge, during a performance by the rapper Travis Scott, “caused immoderate panic, and it started causing immoderate injuries,” said the occurrence chief, Samuel Peña. The performance was portion of the Astroworld euphony festival.

Twenty-two radical were taken to adjacent hospitals by exigency responders, Chief Peña said, adding that of those patients, 11 were successful cardiac arrest. Over 300 radical were treated astatine a “field hospital” astatine the site, helium said.

The nonstop causes of decease volition beryllium determined by the aesculapian examiner, who is investigating the episode, Chief Peña said.