Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has shared a statement following the Astroworld tragedy.
“We had more security over there than we had at the World Series games,” Turner said, noting that security was organized by the city of Houston. The mayor added that the Houston Police Department provided hundreds of officers, “in addition to what I’m told were 240 or 250 non-police security that were there.”During a press conference on Friday night, Houston Fire Department Chief Samuel Peña said a"mass casualty" event occurred at 9:38 p.m. local time at Houston's NRG Park.
when"the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage and that caused some panic and started causing some injuries. People began to fall out and become unconscious and that created additional panic." Per Peña, Astroworld's medical tent and staff was"quickly overwhelmed" by the scale of the incident, after which the Houston fire department stepped in and dispatched 50 units.
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