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PostSubject: Trajedy @ Dance Festival   Trajedy @ Dance Festival EmptyMon Jul 26, 2010 3:09 am

Just saw this on ninemsn,

The death toll rose to 19 on Sunday and police said that 342 had been injured in a panicked crush of partygoers in an overcrowded tunnel that served as the sole entrance to a German festival billed as the world's largest techno music party.

The founder of the Love Parade said it would never be held again.

"The Love Parade was always a peaceful event and a happy party" but would forever be overshadowed by the tragedy, Rainer Schaller said.

"It's over for the Love Parade," he said.

He spoke at a press conference where authorities faced tough questions, but provided few details, about why hundreds of thousands of people were funnelled through a single highway underpass into the former freight railway station used to host the party.

German media reported that there were at least 1.4 million people but police did not immediately confirm that estimate.

Witnesses said officers in Duisburg, a city near Duesseldorf in western Germany, closed the end of the tunnel emptying onto the festival grounds after they become overcrowded around 5pm. They told revellers over loudspeakers to turn around and walk back in the other direction. But the entrance to the tunnel did not appear to have been closed and people continued piling in, sparking a panic and then a deadly crush.

Witnesses described a desperate scene, as people piled up on each other or scrambled over others who had fallen.

Partygoer Udo Sandhoefer told n-TV television that even though no one else was being let in, people still streamed into the tunnel, causing "a real mass panic".

"At some point the column (of people) got stuck, probably because everything was closed up front, and we saw that the first people were already lying on the ground," he said.

City officials chose not to evacuate the site, fearing it might spark more panic, and many people continued partying, unaware of the deaths. Rescue workers carried away the injured as techno music thundered in the background.

Other workers had trouble getting to the victims, hampered by the huge crowds. Local media reported that the cell phone system in Duisburg broke down temporarily and frantic parents trying to reach their children instead drove to the scene to look for them.

However, most streets downtown were blocked by police and the highways leading to the city were jammed. Several media outlets also reported that rescue helicopters had problems taking away the heavily injured because there was not enough space for them to land.

The founder of the Love Parade, Matthias Roeingh, known by the name Dr Motte, blasted the planning for the event, saying "one single entrance through a tunnel lends itself to disaster. I am very sad".

German authorities also have not identified the victims yet, but the Dutch Foreign Ministry said that a 22-year-old Dutch man was among then. A 27-year-old Australian woman from New South Wales was also among the dead, the foreign ministry in Canberra said.

German leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, voiced shock that an event meant to celebrate youth, peace and love could turn so deadly.

"The young people came to celebrate and instead there are dead and injured," Merkel said Saturday. "I am horrified by the suffering and the pain."

It was the worst accident of its kind since nine people were crushed to death and 43 more were injured at a rock festival in Roskilde, Denmark, in 2000. That fatal accident occurred when a huge crowd pushed forward during a Pearl Jam gig.

The Love Parade, where people from across Europe gather to dance, watch floats and listen to DJs spin, was once an institution in Berlin, but has been held in the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany since 2007.

The original Berlin Love Parade grew from a 1989 peace demonstration into a huge outdoor celebration of club culture that drew about 1.5 million people at its peak in 1999. But it suffered from financial problems and tensions with city officials in later years, and eventually moved.

The website of the Love Parade - whose motto this year was The Art of Love - went black on Saturday night, with words in white saying:

"Our wish to arrange a happy togetherness was overshadowed by the tragic accidents today.... Our sincere condolences to all the relatives and our thoughts are with all of those who are currently being taken care of."

Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=7934572

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PostSubject: Re: Trajedy @ Dance Festival   Trajedy @ Dance Festival EmptyMon Jul 26, 2010 5:36 am

Saw it on midday news today... shocking... last time that event will be held.
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PostSubject: Re: Trajedy @ Dance Festival   Trajedy @ Dance Festival EmptyMon Jul 26, 2010 7:17 am

Yeah i can't believe it. Bring on the court cases, its terrible to think that u go to these events to have fun and something like this happens.

The organisers should be accountable, surely they would of known that the entrance tunnel and tickets sold or estimated amount of people turning up would of been high.
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PostSubject: Re: Trajedy @ Dance Festival   Trajedy @ Dance Festival EmptyMon Jul 26, 2010 7:41 am

wat ever u do not watch the footage on youtube. 'cause ti does not look like a dance a party.
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PostSubject: Re: Trajedy @ Dance Festival   Trajedy @ Dance Festival EmptyTue Jul 27, 2010 6:13 pm

yeah man this was a sad day,and some1 should be held accountable,if i ever saw some one fall down i would stop and help them up not step all over them
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PostSubject: Re: Trajedy @ Dance Festival   Trajedy @ Dance Festival EmptyTue Jul 27, 2010 6:28 pm

CjRatedR wrote:
yeah man this was a sad day,and some1 should be held accountable,if i ever saw some one fall down i would stop and help them up not step all over them

That is why I love u so much DJ. u r such a kind person.
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