At least 11 people were killed this weekend in a stampede during the final night of the Mawazine music festival in the Moroccan capital of Rabat.
So sad!
Both Kylie Minogue and Alicia Keyes had performed at the festival in the weeks prior to the incident, which draws over a million people to the city of Rabat annually.
70,000 people had gathered at the closing night of the festival to hear hometown sensation Abdelaziz Stati when a wire fence gave out while the crowd was leaving the festival grounds.
The crowd “surged towards one of the exits,” which caused the stampede. Five women, four men and two children suffocated to death while being trampled by the mass exodus of concert goers.
Awful.
Our thoughts are with the victims’ family and friends.
[Image via AP Images.]
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