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Title: Love Hurts (At Least in Germany)
Post by: Chris_ on July 24, 2010, 02:48:42 PM: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/24/german-police-say-people-killed-injured-mass-panic-love-parade-1200868702/

AP Story.....Link only.......

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Title: 19 crushed to death and more than 300 injured
Post by: NHSparky on July 25, 2010, 09:13:39 AM: 19 crushed to death and more than 300 injured after mass panic at Germany's Love Parade

By Christopher Leake
Last updated at 9:45 AM on 25th July 2010

LINK (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1297346/Love-Parade-17-crushed-death-80-injured-mass-panic-tunnel.html)

(excerpt)

Nineteen people were killed and 340 injured last night when mass panic broke out at a German music festival.

The victims were crushed and emergency workers had trouble getting through to them after a stampede during the annual Love Parade techno music festival in the city of Duisburg, attended by up to 1.4million people.

Witnesses described piles of bodies stacked on top of each other and revellers climbing walls to escape the crush.

Many were pinned shoulder to shoulder in the tunnel and unable to move. People standing on the motorway bridge above the scene could only watch helpless as at least 15 were crushed to death.

Duisburg police director Ralf Klauckmass said there had been â€˜mass panicâ€™.

The stampede broke out after authorities tried to stop thousands from entering the area where the parade was being held in the grounds of an old freight depot.

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Prayers to the families.
Title: Re: 19 crushed to death and more than 300 injured
Post by: djones520 on July 25, 2010, 09:33:24 AM: The creator of the festival said that they will never hold it again because of this.
Title: Re: 19 crushed to death and more than 300 injured
Post by: littlelamb on July 25, 2010, 12:11:25 PM: How sad for those that were lost sending prayers up for their families
Title: Re: Love Hurts (At Least in Germany)
Post by: Chris_ on July 25, 2010, 12:32:02 PM: Dupe....merged

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Title: Re: Love Hurts (At Least in Germany)
Post by: Wineslob on July 26, 2010, 01:23:15 PM: Damn, talk about a mosh pit....................
Title: Re: Love Hurts (At Least in Germany)
Post by: vesta111 on July 26, 2010, 02:43:12 PM: This is what would YOU do if you were caught in a tunnel, people in front and back of you pushing, screaming and pushing you to the ground.

Would you panic and go blind to what was going on. Would you try to protect another that was with you.?

Some will have the sense to climb up out of the way of the chaos, but most people taken by surprise are dead goners.

People taken by surprise in any situition like this or the fire at the night club a few years years ago just reacting for survival. Those that check out escape routs in any building for any reason survive.