Six people, five of them children have died and about 47 others have been injured in a stampede of panicked concertgoers in a small town on Italy’s Adriatic coast. Authorities confirmed about the incident. Three girls, two boys aged 13-16 and an adult woman aged 39, who had accompanied her daughter to the disco in Corinaldo, died at the event on Saturday where an Italian rapper was entertaining the crowd. Police are pursuing reports that the audience at rapper Sfera Ebbasta’s concert at the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub ran for the exits after someone sprayed a substance similar to pepper spray.
Oreste Capocasa , Ancona’s police chief, told RaiNews24 on Saturday morning that 13 of the injured were in a serious condition. Some 800 people were at the event. Capocasa denied that the main exit door, to where most of the youngsters ran, was blocked. “The barriers at the exit fell. People fell and crushed by the crowd,” he added. There are three exits at the venue and the tragedy is reported to have occurred at one that connects the establishment to a car park via a footbridge as the crowds ran towards it, causing a balustrade to give way.
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Italy: Six Dead and Dozens Hurt in Nightclub
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