A crowd at a rap music star’s concert in Houston suddenly surged toward the stage Friday night, creating a mass casualty event that killed eight people and injured scores of others, police said.
Authorities were still investigating what caused the tragedy at the Astroworld music festival as rapper Travis Scott was performing. A sold-out crowd of 50,000 was in attendance, according to The Associated Press.
“The crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries,” Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña told a news conference. “People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic.”
