A stampede at the entrance of a German music festival, the Love Parade , today killed nineteen people and injured around a hundred more. The incident apparently took place due to overcrowding at the entrance to the grounds of the event, located in Duisburg , Germany, which more than a million people were reported to have attended. Despite warnings by police of overcrowding, more people tried to enter the grounds. There is speculation that the panic may have begun when people fell after trying to cross a barrier, and subsequently spread. A statement from president Christian Wulff said that "[i]t is terrible that such a catastrophe brought death, suffering and pain to a peaceful festival full of happy young people from many countries."
A stampede at the entrance of a German music festival, the , today killed nineteen people and injured around a hundred more. The incident apparently took place due to overcrowding at the entrance to the grounds of the event, located in , Germany, which more than a million people were reported to have attended. Despite warnings by police of overcrowding, more people tried to enter the grounds. There is speculation that the panic may have begun when people fell after trying to cross a barrier, and subsequently spread. A statement from president said that "[i]t is terrible that such a catastrophe brought death, suffering and pain to a peaceful festival full of happy young people from many countries."
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