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Stampede at the Love Parade in Germany kills 19
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Berlin — The Associated Press
Published on Saturday, Jul. 24, 2010 12:26PM EDT
Last updated on Saturday, Jul. 24, 2010 1:45PM EDT
.A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans crushed 15 people to death and injured dozens at Germany's famed Love Parade festival on Saturday.
Thousands of other revelers keep partying at the event in Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, unaware of the deadly stampede that started when police tried to block thousands more people from entering the already-jammed parade grounds.
Police are still trying to determine exactly what happened, but the situation was “very chaotic,” police commissioner Juergen Kieskemper said.
He said police closed off the area where the parade was being held because it was already overcrowded. They told revelers over loudspeakers to turn around and walk back in the other direction before the panic broke out, he said.
German news agency DAPD reported the victims were crushed in the large tunnel leading to the event site and that emergency workers had trouble getting to them.
Duisburg city officials decided at a crisis meeting to let the parade go on to prevent more panic and another stampede, said city spokesman Frank Kopatschek.
“The crisis meeting determined not to stop the event because at the moment there are too many people on the grounds,” he said.
The Love Parade was once an institution in Berlin, but has been held in the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany since 2007.
The original Berlin Love Parade grew from a 1989 peace demonstration into a huge outdoor celebration of club culture that drew about 1.5 million people at its peak in 1999. But it suffered from financial problems and tensions with city officials in later years, and eventually moved. |
So sad. |
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| mickmack |
| i just saw this on cnn... crazy! |
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| E2EK1EL |
Oh ty ... RIP to those 15
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10752166 <--- Video here |
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| jester |
| I heard about it. Man thats sad. |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
Very sad. RIP to the 15.
I never understood how ppl die in stampede's. Like how do people not notice they're trampling over someone? |
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| The Rattler |
| quote: | Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
Very sad. RIP to the 15.
I never understood how ppl die in stampede's. Like how do people not notice they're trampling over someone? |
Because a stampede is chaos, and when you're being pushed and shoved you don't really notice wtf is going on. If you try and stop because you happened to notice you stepped on somebody, you'll end up falling too. |
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| jchung52 |
| quote: | Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
Very sad. RIP to the 15.
I never understood how ppl die in stampede's. Like how do people not notice they're trampling over someone? |
seems like it happened in a tunnel where people were flowing from both sides resulting in getting crushed between people and the walls.. Very easy for injuries/death to occur when one person starts getting feisty and pushes to make room which creates a chain reaction and soon enough a condensed crowd becomes a pulsating one and eventually bursts |
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| Dior Homme |
I was just in Frankfurt + Berlin in May and kept asking my German friends about this festival. I've always wanted to check it out but after this i can guarantee that they won't have this anymore. They stopped having them in Berlin because it was always a mess after the parade.
Rightfully so, I went to a German cultural music festival when I was there and it was a lot of fun following the floats. It wasn't as big as this party but it was fairly big, similar to Pride. But the mess that is left over is incredible, especially because you can drink in the streets without any problems and at any time. So bottles and garbage are all over the place.
RIP, and RIP to Love Parade cause it may just be the last one... for a while at least. |
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| jon jon |
| do you guys think this is the end of the love parade? |
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| geroin |
that sucks :(:(
i was in a similar situation here in toronto, it was not a stampede obviously but we were walking downtown on queen street and there happened to be a much music awards that day few years ago, we tried to pass people on the street to get through and ended up being stuck in between everyone not be able able to go anywhere, everyone tried to push through but it was impossible, some girls started crying because they were stuck and couldn't go in any direction and people were showing and pushing just to get some air and get through, people were panicking it was ing madness, eventually after waiting like 15 minutes for some people to pass and yelling for everyone to go back we were able to somehow get the outta there by returning, i thought i was going to suffocate, haven't experienced anything close to this at guv or anywhere else before lol
ps. much music |
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