- The ninth spectator on Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival, who was in a coma and used a ventilator due to a surge in crowds, has died.
- During the concert, fans flocked to the stage; some fell to the ground, their bodies crushed, and others had difficulty breathing.
- According to reports, several lawsuits have been filed against the rapper since then, and he continued his performance after the authorities declared a state of emergency.
Last week, a 22-year-old college student rushed to the stage at a rap concert in Texas. Her family said on Thursday that she died from her injuries, increasing the death toll from the incident to nine. .
Bharti Shahani participated in the Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld Festival with her sister and cousin. Since tragedy In Houston on Friday. Hundreds of people were injured.
“I want my child back,” her crying mother Karishma Shahani told reporters. “I can’t live without her.”
“I think she was hypoxic for 10 minutes at one time and 7 minutes at the other time,” cousin Mohit Bellani told local TV station ABC13.
About 50,000 people squeezed into the open space to dance and sing with Scott, but found themselves increasingly crushed by obstacles, unable to move and breathe as the crowd squeezed towards the stage.
Participants described that some people fell, others rolled over them, crushing the bodies below, and the density of people close to the stage made it difficult for them to pick them up and evacuate them.
Bellani said: “There are many corpses on the ground, as thick as two people. We tried to climb to the top of the mountain to breathe to stay alive.”
A nine-year-old boy trampled in a crush fell into a coma and was fighting for his life.
At least 60 litigation It has been announced that Scott and fellow singer Drake will be singled out. They took to the stage in the last 15 minutes of the concert, long after the authorities declared an emergency.
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