19 People Dead at German Love Festival
 

Officials explain little on German festival stampede

this absolutely crazy....how the hell could the promoters of this actually within sane mind make it to where they planed on packing over one million people into a small space with only one exit/entrance...and thats an access tunnel
:soapbox:

Love Parade is the name of the festival. I saw a video where they were helping people up and saw them carrying the dead and trying to resuscitate some of the people who were still alive. Such a horrible accident

R.I.P.

What were they stampeding for?

I still haven't been able to find out.

EDIT: I just found this:

19 people climbed up a stairway and they all couldn't navigate it? This is getting weirder.

I can understand surging, crazy Germans, as they really like their techno and I've personally seen how packed and crazy it gets at their raves. (Timewarp 2005, Mannheim Germany)
But what the hell?

19 people.. in a crowd over a million all climbing up a narrow stairway. It's hard to think that only 19 people died

EDIT: It's up to 20 with 511 injured

Did the stairway collapse or something?
Seems even easier not to fall if you've got over a million people in a narrow stairway...

That's really fucked up. :(

No they fell from it. I haven't seen what the staircase looks like so I'm not exactly sure how they fell or if the injuries were sustained from perhaps getting crushed by people after they fell. I know 2 deaths happened in the entrance/exit tunnel as they were crushed against the wall.

What happened was the festival was overcrowded and the only exit/entrance was through a railway tunnel.

As people were being turned away from the festival more people tried to get in causing a huge crush at the gates.

The only way to avoid being crushed was to climb up a high wall or climb up these steep stairs.
Because of the sheer number of people trying to get up these stairs some people fell off.

I didn't see the stairs on the news report but the walls surrounding this tunnel looked at least 20/30 feet high.