{"id":14366,"date":"2012-10-31T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-31T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:11:04","slug":"Three-die-in-crowd-at-Steve-Aoki-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14366","title":{"rendered":"Three die in crowd at Steve Aoki concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an incident that bears similarities to the tragic crush at 2010?s Love Parade festival, which saw 21 people die and countless more injured, Thriller Music Park\u2019s Halloween party, headlined by Steve Aoki [above], has ended in tragedy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

El Pais \/ Spin report that three young women have been killed, and two more remain in critical condition in hospital. The event, it seems, was not over-ticketed (it had not, in fact, even officially sold out), but attendees have claimed it was overcrowded.<\/p>\n

\u201cAround 4 A.M.\u201d, reads Spin\u2018s report, \u201croughly 50 medical personnel were called to the scene to respond to two victims who were unconscious and in cardiac arrest; when they arrived, they found five people in distress. El Pa\u00eds reports that their injuries were due to \u201ctrauma by crushing, possibly having suffered a fall and being trampled.\u201d Two of the victims were treated on site and declared dead after 30 minutes of attempted resuscitation; a third died shortly upon arrival at a local hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice are still investigating the disaster, but signs point to a disturbance in the audience that led to a stampede; it is believed that a flare was set off, triggering a panic in the venue. The crush apparently did not take place on the dance floor itself, but in a \u201cpassage of terror\u201d located on a lower floor of the building, which connected to the main floor via stairway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne concertgoer reported that only one of the exits was open. \u201cThere was a human bottleneck at the only exit, because all the others were closed, sealed,\u201d she told El Pa\u00eds. \u201cThere were people crying, crushed; security personnel dragging away those that were trapped.\u201d A comment on El Pa\u00eds\u2018 Facebook page reports, \u201cI was in the bottleneck that formed and it was inhuman. You couldn\u2019t move forward, because there were people lying on the ground, or backward, because people kept pushing. We were there for like half an hour, until it occurred to someone to open another door, and people began to exit that way.\u201d Another commenter notes, \u201cPeople inside [the bottleneck] were vomiting, fainting\u2014chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last two years have found dance music \u2013 particularly in North America \u2013 enjoying a higher profile than ever, but it\u2019s also been a time of tragedies in the rave: two Swedish House Mafia concerts ended in stabbings this summer, and a teenage boy died at last year\u2019s Electric Daisy Carnival festival. This year\u2019s Dimensions and Bestival festivals also saw deaths.<\/p>\n

Update: In a statement on his website<\/a>, Aoki expresses his condolences and cancels tonight\u2019s show in Bilbao:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter my performance last night at Thriller Music Park at the Madrid Arena in Spain, I was devastated to hear that three people had died during a crowd rush at one of the exits. The safety of my fans has always been my top priority and had I known that there was any distress putting people in jeopardy within the venue I would have ended my show immediately. My show in Bilbao Spain tonight will be cancelled out of respect for those who lost their lives and those who are injured. I would like to express my deepest condolences and heart felt prayers to the families and loved ones during this difficult time.\u201d
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