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The tragedy at the festival "Love parade"
On held last weekend in the German city of Duisburg music festival «Love Parade» because of the resulting stampede killed 19 people.
The dead included 12 German citizens and one citizen of the Netherlands, Italy, Australia and China. Injuries of varying severity were about 340 people. (AP)
Rescue work was delayed because of the huge crowd, about a million people who came to the biggest electronic music festival in Europe. (EPA)
Crowding at the festival originated from the fact that too many people trying to get to the site of the festival in the old part of the building between the main station and the highway, the only passage which was a tunnel. (AP)
The area was cordoned off by police, reported that the entrance to the festival is closed. Nevertheless, wishing still eager to get behind the cordon, and there was a stampede in a tunnel. (GETTY)
The police tried to bring people back to life a shot in the heart and artificial respiration right in the tunnel. (EPA)
"On the ground lay the affected people, someone brought in a sense, someone already covered Veils" - says 18-year-old participant of the festival «Love Parade» Isabelle Schloss. (EPA)
The city has been declared a state of emergency. (AFP / GETTY)
Cross ice, candles and flowers at the entrance to the tunnel, killing members of the festival «Love Parade» Duisburg. (Getty Images)
It turned out that the site could accommodate only a quarter of a million people - that is at least five times less than that gathered on the matter. (Getty Images)
"I have not enough words to express how deeply I am appalled," - said festival organizer Rainer Schaller, speaking on Sunday, July 25 at a press conference in Duisburg. (Getty Images)
Specially created by the crisis staff decided not to interrupt the event, in order to avoid a new wave of panic. (Getty Images)
"Love Parade" - the world's largest electronic music festival - was founded in Berlin in 1989 as a parade of the world. In contact and other social services. networks have a special group of this event. (Getty Images)
Place of mourning for the victims ravers at the entrance to the ill-fated tunnel. (Getty Images)
The largest festival of "techno" - "Love Parade" - is no more. (Getty Images)
The dead included 12 German citizens and one citizen of the Netherlands, Italy, Australia and China. Injuries of varying severity were about 340 people. (AP)
Rescue work was delayed because of the huge crowd, about a million people who came to the biggest electronic music festival in Europe. (EPA)
Crowding at the festival originated from the fact that too many people trying to get to the site of the festival in the old part of the building between the main station and the highway, the only passage which was a tunnel. (AP)
The area was cordoned off by police, reported that the entrance to the festival is closed. Nevertheless, wishing still eager to get behind the cordon, and there was a stampede in a tunnel. (GETTY)
The police tried to bring people back to life a shot in the heart and artificial respiration right in the tunnel. (EPA)
"On the ground lay the affected people, someone brought in a sense, someone already covered Veils" - says 18-year-old participant of the festival «Love Parade» Isabelle Schloss. (EPA)
The city has been declared a state of emergency. (AFP / GETTY)
Cross ice, candles and flowers at the entrance to the tunnel, killing members of the festival «Love Parade» Duisburg. (Getty Images)
It turned out that the site could accommodate only a quarter of a million people - that is at least five times less than that gathered on the matter. (Getty Images)
"I have not enough words to express how deeply I am appalled," - said festival organizer Rainer Schaller, speaking on Sunday, July 25 at a press conference in Duisburg. (Getty Images)
Specially created by the crisis staff decided not to interrupt the event, in order to avoid a new wave of panic. (Getty Images)
"Love Parade" - the world's largest electronic music festival - was founded in Berlin in 1989 as a parade of the world. In contact and other social services. networks have a special group of this event. (Getty Images)
Place of mourning for the victims ravers at the entrance to the ill-fated tunnel. (Getty Images)
The largest festival of "techno" - "Love Parade" - is no more. (Getty Images)
