Panic Sparks Deadly Stampede at German Love Parade

At the Love Parade Saturday in Duisburg are at least fifteen deaths. Another hundred people were injured. The dead and injured in a tunnel where mass panic broke out. 
According to a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs was still nine hours steeds rond not clear whether Dutch The victims include. According to him, for the consul in Germany difficult to get in contact with the German authorities regarding the accident.
The German police have opened a hotline for worried relatives: 0049-203/94000.The festival is over Saturday night closed early. There are psychologists attended the festival to assist traumatized partygoers. 
The panic broke out while the crowd stood in the subway waiting for admission to the festival site, a former station yard. One partygoer complained about the police pointed to the threat of panic in the tunnel, but no measures were taken.According to the newspaper Bild were 1.4 million people come down on the large dance party in the Ruhr. 

The station of Duisburg near the festival grounds Wer temporarily closed. After the panic many people were on track to walk. The party was initially interrupted for security reasons. Many partygoers who did not know that people were killed, just by dancing. Those still waiting for access, with speakers invited to go home.

Hurried to the disaster Bild, Germany's largest newspaper, still, the hottest party in the world''. The top Dutch DJ Tiësto kept a part of the musical entertainment at the party site on a former railway yard. He could use a sound system with a capacity of 750,000 watts, according to Bild the most powerful ever used in Europe.
The event was a special hymn composed The Art of Love (The art of love).Reporters from news agency dpa reported spot "noise and a lot of naked skin.The Dutch top DJs Tiësto and Fedde Le Grand were among the performers at the festival site occurred. The Love Parade is one of the biggest events in the context of RUHR.2010: The Ruhr is European Capital of Culture this year.

Comment president

President Christian Wulff of Germany has reacted to the tragedy upset Saturday at the Love Parade in Duisburg. 'Such a catastrophe, during a peaceful celebration of gay young people from many countries, death, suffering and pain is terrible''said the head of state. Wulff said his sympathy to the relatives and demanded that the cause of the disaster to the bottom is selected.
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