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Travis Scott performs astatine Day 1 of the Astroworld Music Festival astatine NRG Park connected Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, successful Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

HOUSTON – Officials successful Texas accidental astatine slightest 8 radical are dormant and respective others injured successful a assemblage surge astatine the Astroworld Festival.

The surge broke retired conscionable aft 9 p.m. Friday portion rapper Travis Scott was performing, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña told reporters astatine a quality conference.

“The assemblage began to compress towards the beforehand of the stage, and that caused immoderate panic, and it started causing immoderate injuries,” the occurrence main said. “People began to autumn out, go unconscious, and it created further panic.”

The amusement was called disconnected soon aft respective radical began suffering injuries.

Officials transported 17 radical to the hospital, including 11 who were successful cardiac arrest, Peña said. Many radical were besides treated astatine the country astatine NRG Park, wherever a tract infirmary had been acceptable up.

Approximately 50,000 radical were successful attendance astatine the festival, Peña said.

The occurrence main added that officials did not instantly cognize the causes of decease for the 8 radical who died. A aesculapian examiner would investigate. The deceased had not been identified arsenic of aboriginal Saturday.

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Officials acceptable up a reunification halfway astatine a edifice for household members who had not been capable to scope relatives who had been successful attendance astatine the event.

Astroworld is simply a two-day euphony festival that was scheduled to instrumentality spot Friday and Saturday successful Houston. The lawsuit was sold out, according to the Astroworld website. Saturday's performances person been canceled.

Event promoters had arranged for aesculapian units to beryllium connected country astatine the festival, nevertheless erstwhile the assemblage surge began, those units were “quickly overwhelmed,” Peña said.

Houston Police Chief Troy Finner called for calm and urged radical not to leap to conclusions arsenic to what caused the surge.

“I deliberation it's precise important that nary of america speculate. Nobody has each the answers tonight,” Finner said. He added that determination person been respective rumors surrounding the lawsuit that authorities would look into.

“We're going to bash an probe and find retired due to the fact that it's not just to the producers, to anybody other involved, until we find what happened, what caused the surge,” helium said. “We don't know, but we volition find out.”

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