18 Dead & 200 Injured at Love Parade Festival In Germany
A stampede at the Love Parade music festival in Germany left 18 people dead and around 200 people injured after being crushed inside a tunnel. Read more on the Love Parade tragedy below.
The tragic incident at the Love Parade occurred when music fans took a short cut through a tunnel that was too narrow to hold that many people.
More than thousands people entered the tunnel to shortcut access to the festival grounds after being told by police at the entrance to the event that it was closed due to overcapacity. But the shortcut through the tunnel turned into a bottleneck, describing it as being like trying to get through “the eye of a needle”. People inside the tunnel began panicking and resulted in a stampede.
Kevin Krausgartner, 21, who was in the tunnel when the terrible incident happened said, “I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “There were 25 people lying in a heap. I screamed – people could no longer get any air. I saw dead people, and one person was sitting there looking extremely pale. I wanted to give him some water, but the ambulance medic told me there was no point as he was already dead.” Krausgarnter said he saw police “standing on the bridge and doing nothing”.
