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. 

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