19 killed in German music festival stampede
BERLIN. July 26. KAZINFORM The death toll from a stampede at a "Love Parade" techno music festival in Germany rose to 19 on Sunday and police pursued an investigation into how the mass panic occurred; Kazinform refers to China Daily.
The police said at a press conference that the stampede happened shortly after 5 pm local time, as people were pushing and crushing each other in an entrance tunnel leading to the event's main stage.
Police said that some people were killed and hurt after "climbing over the barriers and falling to the ground."
Investigators and organisers scheduled a news conference for 1000 GMT on their findings so far regarding Saturday's incident in an entrance tunnel to a former rail station in the west German city of Duisburg where the event was held.
"We are currently working with the organisers and collecting evidence in hopes of reconstructing the events, but it will be labour- and time-intensive," police spokesman Christoph Gilles said by telephone on Sunday; Kazinform cites China Daily.
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