TRAGEDY AT ASTROWORLD: 8 DEAD, HUNDREDS INJURED AT HOUSTON MUSIC FEST
Eight people died and hundreds more were injured while attending the first day of rapper Travis Scott’s annual Astroworld Music Festival in Houston yesterday. According to local authorities, the chaos started shortly before Travis Scott’s set and only worsened once the Houston native began performing, during which the crowd “began to push and surge towards the front of the stage, which caused the people in the front to be compressed.” The sold out crowd of 50,000 people surged toward the front of the venue, resulting in scores of injuries and sadly, eight confirmed casualties.
This years edition of Astroworld got off to a rough start when footage of an unruly crowd breaking down a fence and trampling several concert goers went viral earlier in the day and has since become a grim omen of what would take place later in the evening.
Fans just broke through the fence to get into #AstroWorldpic.twitter.com/mpi70ZzTOs
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) November 5, 2021
Over 300 people were treated for injuries at a field hospital on-site, as well as 23 victims who were transported to local hospitals. There are harrowing accounts of last nights madness circulating on social media from concert attendees, as well as eye witness reports given to news outlets such as this:
““It was so hard to breathe up there; you just have to wait until it pushes back, because if it (the crowd) gets pushed forward, it’s likely going to get pushed back. When you get pushed back, people always fall over.””
Travis Scott issued a statement earlier today regarding the tragic events of last night:
— TRAVIS SCOTT (@trvisXX) November 6, 2021
Day 2 of Astroworld has been cancelled as police investigate precisely what happened last night.
