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    Astroworld Festival joins a list of historical concert tragedies

    Astroworld Festival calls to mind other rare but traumatic incidents at concerts and festivals throughout the last half-century. Here's a timeline of those tragedies.
    by Rachel Treisman Nov 06, 2021 6 minutes
    Flowers rest outside of the canceled Astroworld festival at NRG Park in Houston on Saturday. The crowd surge that killed eight people calls to mind other concerts and music festivals that turned deadly in recent decades.

    At least eight people are dead and many more injured after a crowd rushed the stage at rapper Travis Scott's music festival Astroworld in Houston.

    Authorities are investigating the cause of the "mass casualty event," which unfolded at an outdoor performance by Scott at the festival on Friday night.

    Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner called for law enforcement, festival organizer Live Nation and the venue to explain "how the event got out of control leading to the deaths and injuries of several attendees."

    The deaths at Astroworld Festival call to mind other rare but traumatic incidents at concerts and festivals in which crowding or other factors contributed to dangerous conditions for some attendees.

    November 2021: ABBA tribute concert

    The Astroworld incident comes just days after two people died at a music event in Sweden.

    As audiences waited in a concert hall near Stockholm for an ABBA tribute concert to start on Tuesday night, an elderly man either jumped or fell down seven floors and landed on

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