At the least eight individuals have been confirmed lifeless by authorities after a “mass casualty incident” at Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Pageant.
The live performance occasion, held at Houston’s NRG Park on Friday, Nov. 5, was attended by roughly 50,000 individuals, together with the artist’s girlfriend Kylie Jenner and her sister Kendall Jenner. Throughout a press convention in a single day, authorities mentioned that simply after 9 p.m. native time, the gang “started to compress in the direction of the entrance of the stage” inflicting panic and accidents. “Individuals started to fall out, change into unconscious,” authorities mentioned, “and it created further panic.”
Asuncion Cortez, a Public Info Officer with Houston Hearth Division additionally instructed E! Information, “In the course of the festivities up till the tip of the pageant, roughly 300 individuals had been handled on web site for minor accidents.” After the “mass casualty incident,” Cortez mentioned, “17 sufferers had been transported to space hospitals, 12 of these sufferers had been transported by HFD models.”
Based on officers, 11 of these sufferers that had been transported had been in cardiac arrest.
