A crowd crush during Friday’s opening night of rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Texas has resulted in at least eight people dead and hundreds injured.The disaster happened as a massive number of concertgoers at Houston’s NRG Park rushed the stage, compressing those in frot of it around 9:15 p.m.,The Astroworld incident was reminiscent of the December 1979 concert disaster in Cincinnati, where 11 people died in a crush to see the Who at Riverfront Coliseum.It was also not the first time Astroworld had crowd control problems.
In November 2019, a stampede outside the festival left three people injured. Minutes before the gates were scheduled to open, fans began climbing over metal barricades and surged toward the entrance,
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