18 trampled to death in mass panic at Germany’s Love Parade
DUISBURG, Germany – Crowds of people streaming into a techno music festival surged through an already jammed entry tunnel on Saturday, setting off a panic that killed 18 people and injured 80 at an event meant to celebrate love and peace.
The circumstances of the stampede at the famed Love Parade festival in Duisburg in western Germany were still not clear even hours after the chaos, but it appeared that some or most of the 18 had been crushed to death.
That’s bad. I’m sorry it happened to them. The Love Parade sounded like something that I would enjoy. I imagine things will be done differently next year.I remember many years ago I attended a concert where everyone had to pass through plastic curvy slow-down tunnels to get in.