![]() ![]() She remembers being pulled over a fence, and ultimately waking up for good in a chair, she said. “And I just remember looking up and passing out,” and then going in and out of consciousness, she said. “Right when he started performing his first song, I looked at my boyfriend and said, ‘We have to get out of here.’ He said, ‘I can’t – we can’t,’” Eskins recalled. From the side, I was being squeezed,” she said. “I was having constant pressure on my chest, constant pressure on my back. Travis Scott pauses Astroworld performance after seeing ambulance in crowdĪnother woman in the crowd, Madeline Eskins, ultimately passed out and was apparently crowd-surfed to safety, she wrote in an Instagram post.Īs a timer on a screen counted down 30 minutes to Scott’s performance, “people compressed up against each other and were pushing forward and backward,” and it got progressively worse, Eskins told CNN Saturday. “People began to fall out, become unconscious,” Peña said at a news conference. The crowd “for whatever reason began to push and surge towards the front of the stage, which caused the people in the front to be compressed,” Houston Fire Chief Sam Peña told CNN Saturday morning. I realized that people were dying,” Amper, 22, told CNN. When Scott came onstage, “everything started to happen,” audience member Anita Amper said. “The amount of people I saw get hurt, passed out, bleeding, crying is crazy,” Munguia said. “I started screaming for help … I felt so scared, like I was going to die.” “The crowd was squishing me so much that I felt like I couldn’t breathe,” Emily Munguia, 22, told CNN. ![]() People there described being increasingly squeezed in the minutes before Scott’s performance began, and then feeling crushed and seeing others pass out and scream in terror once his show started. “We will continue working to provide as much information and assistance as possible to the local authorities as they investigate the situation,” the statement said. The company responsible for organizing the event, Live Nation, issued a statement saying they were “heartbroken for those lost and impacted.” Guavin added there were “mosh pits in every single direction.” “All of what is to be 50,000 people ran to the front, compressing everyone together with the little air available.” “Once (Scott) started, all hell broke loose,” concert-goer Alexis Guavin, 23, told CNN. Video from the event showed the performer on an outdoor stage – rapper and event organizer Travis Scott – pause and look on in confusion as an ambulance with flashing lights moved into the densely packed crowd. updates: Many dead and injured at Astroworld Festival in HoustonĪbout 50,000 people were at the sold-out Astroworld Festival at NRG Park – the stadium complex where the Astrodome and the NRG Stadium stand – when the incident began just after 9 p.m. Courtesy of Twitter /via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. An ambulance is seen in the crowd during the Astroworld music festiwal in Houston, Texas, U.S., Novemin this still image obtained from a social media video on November 6, 2021. ![]()
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