A crowd crush broke out during the opening night of the festival at Houston's NRG Park.
At least eight people have died and many more have been injured at the Astroworld music festival in Houston.
He told a news conference that the push had caused panic and injuries, and that"people began to fall out, become unconscious and it created additional panic." Travis Scott performs onstage during the third annual Astroworld Festival at NRG Park on November 05, 2021 in Houston, Texas. There were at least eight people who died and many injured in an apparent crush during his performance.Organized by Houston-born rapper Travis Scott, the third annual festival was scheduled to run from Friday through Saturday but has now been canceled.
With the excitement and agitation among the crowd increasing, Scott stopped a number of times as he saw fans in distress and he asked security to step in, theEmergency vehicles drove through the crowd and the fevered atmosphere continued to grow until 9.38 p.m. when the"mass-casualty incident" was triggered.
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