The crowd surge that left dozens dead at Halloween festivities in South Korea's capital city of Seoul is the latest example of a deadly story that has been told around the world.
A Southern California man who was among the concertgoers at a deadly Houston music festival gives first-hand account of what it was like for fans.
The risk of such tragic accidents, which receded when venues closed and people stayed home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has returned. "As people struggle to get up, arms and legs get twisted together. Blood supply starts to be reduced to the brain," G. Keith Still, a visiting professor of crowd science at the University of Suffolk in England, told NPR after the Astroworld crowd surge in Houston last November. "It takes 30 seconds before you lose consciousness, and around about six minutes, you're into compressive or restrictive asphyxia.
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