"Love Parade 2010" Is Now "Death Parade"

The circumstances of the stampede at the famed Love Parade festival were still not clear even hours after the chaos, but it appeared that some or most of the 19 had been crushed to death.


Emergency workers had trouble getting to the victims, hampered by the huge crowds. The area was a hectic and crowded scene, with bodies lying on the ground as people milled around or attended to them, and rescue workers carried away the injured. Techno music thundered in the background.

Local media reported that the cell phone system in Duisburg broke down temporarily and frantic parents trying to reach their children instead drove to the scene to look for them.


German media said 1.4 million people attended but that figure could not be immediately confirmed.But thousands gather in front of a tunnel just before after a mass panic took place at this year's techno-music festival Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany, on Saturday, July 24. At least 18 people died when crowds of people were crushed in a tunnel leading to the event grounds, police Said.