Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston Leaves 8 Dead, Hundreds Injured After Friday Night Crowd Panic

Tragedy struck Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston as crowd surges during his Friday night headlining set left 8 dead and over 300 injured, according to Houston officials. 50,000 fa…

as crowd surges during his Friday night headlining set left 8 dead and over 300 injured, according to Houston officials.Houston Chronicle reports

. At a press conference following the tragedy, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña outlined the timeline. He said that at 9 p.m. the crowd began surging forward during Scott’s set, which caused Scott to pause the show several times to ask security to help out fans, and sent members of the fire department into the dense crowd to rescue the injured.

At 9:38 p.m. the “mass-casualty incident” was triggered, at which time CPR began to get administered to several unconscious fans. Meanwhile, social media posts like the below show the frenzied scene as officials tried to rescue concertgoers.

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