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Stampede at Love Parade - 21 people reported killed (updated)

dont mean to appear flippant - very sad news - i hate that sense of panic in a big crowd - mustve been horrendous. sounds like police were to blame at least in part.
 
I once left an event in Bristol that was over-full before it started - it was in the hold of a boat - I always felt guilty for not reporting it to the authorities.
What can it be like to know that you trampled on someone ?
 
Ah, that's awful.

I was in a crush at one of the early T in the Parks, when it was held in Strathclyde Park. There was an underpass that connected the festival site to the campsite, and when we were going through there was a huge crush. I don't know what happened really, but it was unbearably hot and crowded. The police and stewards got it sorted and when the pressure started to lift a lot of people who had obviously already passed out fell over. Domino effect. I just remember kneeling down and locking my arms to protect my wife who was huddled below me (five foot two on her tiptoes, if she jumped a bit) and straining to bear the weight on my back and against the side of the tunnel.

Nobody died so it's just one of those things, but I still have bad dreams about it. Still remember the smell too.
 
17 dead now :(

:mad: @ them cunts who thought Berlin was now too good for a party. The Tiergarten was a top place for some sun + tekno
 
Orang Utan said:
it's terribly sad
and this thread has been moved from general. wtf?
have some respect
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This really is the wrong time and place to start disrupting such a serious thread with petty complaints about what forum the thread occupies. Please start a thread in the feedback forum (if you must).

Back on topic, the Guardian is reporting that "at least" 18 people died, with a further 10 people needing resuscitation and another 200 people being injured, nine of them critically.

I can't begin to imagine how awful and scary this must have been.

Scuffles began to break out in the late afternoon, when thousands of angry people entered the tunnel to get easier access to the overcrowded festival grounds after being told by police at the entrance to the event that it was closed due to overcapacity. Police said the passageway quickly turned into a bottleneck, describing it as being like trying to get through "the eye of a needle". Those inside panicked and a stampede ensued.

Kevin Krausgartner, 21, who was in the tunnel when panic broke out, told Welt Online of the "gruesome scenes" he had witnessed. "I've never seen anything like it," he said. "There were 25 people lying in a heap. I screamed – people could no longer get any air. I saw dead people, and one person was sitting there looking extremely pale. I wanted to give him some water, but the ambulance medic told me there was no point as he was already dead." Krausgarnter said he saw police "standing on the bridge and doing nothing".

Eyewitness Udo Sandhoefer said some people climbed up the walls of the tunnel in an attempt to get into the grounds from the side. "People in the crowd that moved up simply ran over those who were lying on the ground."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/24/love-parade-festival-tunnel-stampede
 
Fuck. This could have been any of us.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...th-80-injured-mass-panic-tunnel.html?ITO=1490
 
I was there, I didnt see a thing personally, I was bouncing away at the second stage for most of the afternoon - barry ashworth / dub pistols, a german guy told me what happened, but I thought he was fucking with me.
Then I checked the news on my phone and Im shocked.
There were hundreds of service vehicles there when it shut down.
Utterly Tragic.
 
TheHoodedClaw said:
Ah, that's awful.

I was in a crush at one of the early T in the Parks, when it was held in Strathclyde Park. There was an underpass that connected the festival site to the campsite, and when we were going through there was a huge crush. I don't know what happened really, but it was unbearably hot and crowded. The police and stewards got it sorted and when the pressure started to lift a lot of people who had obviously already passed out fell over. Domino effect. I just remember kneeling down and locking my arms to protect my wife who was huddled below me (five foot two on her tiptoes, if she jumped a bit) and straining to bear the weight on my back and against the side of the tunnel.

Nobody died so it's just one of those things, but I still have bad dreams about it. Still remember the smell too.
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Fucks sake
 
Orang Utan said:
was the decision to carry on wise in your opinion?
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Definitely, it would have just led to more chaos, if they hadn't, as it happened it all shut early, Luke Slater's set got cut, and they made an announcement after that in German, most people were unaware until then.
 
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