Travis Scott’s Astroworld’s festival turns deadly in Houston after 8 people are killed and others severely injured.
Friday night (November 5th, 2021) 50,000 people were at the sold-out music festival outside at NRG Park. Once a count down timer was shown on the jumbo screen, fans got aggressive and started to push each other trying to make their way near the stage. A nurse named Madeline Eskins told CNN , “As the timer got closer to coming down to zero, it just — it got worse and worse. And I looked at my boyfriend, Sam, and I told him, I was like, ‘We have to get out of here,’ because i just felt — I was having constant pressure on my chest, constant pressure on my back. From the side, I was being squeezed. I tried to lift up my arms to make more room for myself; it wasn’t working.” .
She went on to tell them, “So right when he started performing his first song, I looked at my boyfriend and said, ‘We have to get out of here.’ He said, ‘I can’t. We can’t.’ We couldn’t. And then I just remember looking up and passing out,” Eskins said. “And then I was in and out for a little while. I didn’t see anything, but I could kind of feel what was going on. Someone pulled me over a fence and I was sat in a chair, and then I passed out again. And when I woke up, I was in a different area in a chair with a water bottle in my lap.”
Festival goer Nick Johnson said “It was going on for over two hours,” Johnson said. “It just got worse and worse, everyone’s like, you just can’t breathe, you just feel like there’s a weighted blanket on you.”
The fire department initiated a “mass-casualty incident” at about 9:30 p.m., and authorities transported 17 people to the hospital. The Houston Fire Department transported 12 of those patients, and said that 11 of them underwent CPR while en route to the hospital. There were eight “confirmed” fatalities, the department said. Their ages ranged from 16-23.
Travis made a statement via Twitter.
— TRAVIS SCOTT (@trvisXX) November 6, 2021
There are also reports that people were injected with drugs, but police are investigating those claims. WebCelebDaily will keep you updated.
