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26 Jul 2010 10:05

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World: Love Parade tragedy: Angela Merkel promises “intensive” investigation

  • The organisers have said themselves that they will not hold any more Love Parades but such large events need to be made safe and the federal states of course have the required police forces to do this.
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel • Regarding this weekend’s tragic Love Parade incident, which she says her government needs to get to the bottom of to figure out what happened. “It now needs to be very intensively investigated as to how this happened because the many young people who were delighted to be going to the event have had… terrible memories and we have to do everything to make sure that something like this does not happen again,” she said. source

25 Jul 2010 00:04

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: Huge crowds may have caused stampede

  • 700k number of people Love Parade 2010 was expecting
  • 1.4M number of people who actually showed up today
  • 18 number of people killed in the Love Parade stampede source

24 Jul 2010 16:46

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: Here’s a scary video clip from the scene

  • Harrowing stuff. Imagine being stuck in a situation like this – a huge festival basically brought to its knees by a stampede which killed and injured many. There are likely many confused people inside. Best wishes to everyone involved. source

24 Jul 2010 13:52

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24 Jul 2010 13:46

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: German music festival’s line turns deadly

  • 15+ people were killed at the Love Parade festival in Germany
  • 40+ people were injured while in the festival’s crushing line source

24 Jul 2010 13:41

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: Mass panic blamed for festival stampede

Apparently something spooked the crowd of German techno fans, leading to the mass stampede. The festival appears to not be going on anymore. source