15 Killed At Germany's Love Parade Festival

This is awful!
As 500,000 people gathered in Duisburg, Germany for the Love Parade Festival on Saturday, a mass stampede killed 15 people and left 40 injured.
A state of emergency was declared as several techno music fans were trampled to death in a tunnel connecting a railway goods yard to the concert grounds.
Concertgoer Karl Lowenstein said:
“It was hell. The tunnel was dark, it was full. Something happened - whether someone tripped or someone fell I don’t know. But there was a stampede to get to the other end and those who fell… well, many of them never got up again.
A friend and I got out as hundreds more poured in. We tried to tell them to close it down, but they didn’t listen. This was about 45 minutes before people were killed.”
Medical workers were even having trouble getting to the wounded because of the thousands of meandering people standing the the way.
Another witness said:
"I have never seen anything like it. I saw 25 people piled on top of one another, a huge heap. I cried.
The people couldn’t get any air. I saw the dead there. One person was completely pale and I wanted to give him some water but a medic said that wouldn’t help him - he was already gone. I saw police on the bridge just standing there and they didn’t do anything.”
So sad.
[Image via AP Images.]
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19 killed, 342 injured. I was right there, in the middle of everything. People died right next to me. It was awful. It was terrible. And we're all still under shock. RIP
i live in germany
19 people killed and over 300 injured
and the love parade will cancel it for ever :@
read the newspaper this morning and just cried, it is so sad couldnt imagine being there. When you see the pictures in the papers it is just unbelievable.
RIP
MISS CLEO thank u for showin me how stupid u r…i am german and im tired of ur prejudices…germans are more than schnitzel bier and the "n" word … get over it!!never been to germany,right? never got outta ur little dark ignorant whole u seem 2 live in…19 people died and over 340 were injured… not only germans were involved, people from china australia and the netherlands… u can blame it on the organisation and the people who didnt see the danger. the area was never intended for over 1 million people… lame to talk about drugs and alkohol… shame on u stay in ur simple-minded world!!!
Re: alufolie – You are so right!!!
I have been in that situation at an indoor stadium concert, close to the front of the line waiting for ONE door to open to let ppl inside. I started to feel the push, push, pushing from behind me. It felt like I was being lifted off the ground and had no control. Luckily, the door attendants had the wherewithal to get the doors opened quickly and before the scheduled time. The crowds streamed in very fast and an accident averted.
19 deaths and allmost 500 injured.. terrible..
I live in germany, todays' newspaper: 19 killed, 340 injured badly! so sad…
Re: MISS CLEO – what the deuce???? you must be messed up! probably you've never even been to germany and dunno any german! just shut the f** up, because you would probably have been running around screaming, pushing everyone else to the ground. moron.
this is really sad. we might complain and think health and safety laws are excessive but this is what happens if the organisers dont follow them
No no… There was over a million ppl and that's whay it went wrong! The security measure weren't respected and too many ppl were there and they had trouble evaquating!
Currently 19 killed and over 300 badly injured!
Revenge of the Jews? honestly that's what you think??? gott wie bescheuert manche menschen sein können das gibts doch nicht. sowas hätte überall passieren können, was hat das mit deutschland zu tun? war halt schlecht organisiert und punkt aus.was bringen diese schuldzuweisungen jetzt ists eh zu spät. verdammt ey -.-
Guess there wasnt much love in this love parade! I dont get why a stampede was started though..
Re: alufolie – I LIVE IN GERMANY, YOU DUMB BEAVER.