More than 300 people were also injured on Friday 5 November, during a panic movement among the participants of this festival as the American rapper Travis Scott has been organizing for three years.
Le Monde with AFP
A 22-year-old student taken in the mortal crowd movement of the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston in Texas (southern United States) succumbed to his injuries, Thursday, November 11, making her the ninth victim of this drama. Bhali Shahani had been hospitalized for nearly a week and had been placed under artificial respirator.
Bharti Shahani attended the American rapper’s concert Travis Scott where a terrible crowded movement killed eight other people and injured hundreds.
“A person has fallen, and the others followed as dominoes” one on the other, has entrusted local television ABC13 Mohit Bellani, the cousin of Bhali Shahani who accompanied him to this event. “There were stacked bodies, we struggled to go back to the surface and breathe to stay alive,” he said.
The drama has occurred, Friday, 5 November around 9 pm (local time), when part of the public, about 50,000 people, began to hurry to the front of the scene where Travis Scott occur. In the panic that quickly followed, spectators – the majority of young people collapsed, unconscious, for some victims of cardiac arrest or trampled, reported to the journalists of the representatives of the authorities.
more 300 wounded
“The crowd started hurrying towards the front of the scene. It created a panic start that caused injuries, people started to fall, to lose consciousness, and that created an additional panic” , said Houston’s firefighters, Samuel Pena.
A 9-year-old boy, Ezra Blount, is between life and death.
According to the authorities, more than 300 people were injured throughout the day of the event, counting scratches and minor bruises.
Dozens of complaints have already been filed against the organizers of this concert.
The Astroworld Festival was launched in 2018 by Travis Scott, native to Houston. The 27-year-old artist, who pierced in 2013, was nominated six times in Grammy Awards. He has a child with Kylie Jenner, one of the girls of the Kardashian clan and star of the reality. During the Scott concert on Friday night, the Canadian rap Superstar Drake joined him on stage.