Heartbreaking footage of the Astroworld tragedy has been posted to social media in the aftermath of the crowd surge that took the lives of eight people and injured hundreds more.
Festival-goers have been posting about their attempts to bring a stop to Travis Scott’s performance in order to try and get the crowd surge under control.
One video shows a young girl begging staff to stop the show because ‘someone had died’, and her desperate pleas seem to fall on deaf ears.
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Cody Hartt wrote:
I screamed for help so many times, alerted security, asked everyone in the crowd if there was anyone who was CPR certified. Every call went unanswered. I was told, ‘we already know, and we can’t do anything to stop the show, they’re streaming live’. Disgusting. #ASTROWORLDFest.
I screamed for help so many times, alerted security, asked everyone in the crowd if there was anyone who was CPR certified. Every call went unanswered. I was told, “we already know, and we can’t do anything to stop the show, they’re streaming live” Disgusting. #ASTROWORLDFest
— Cody Hartt (@CodyHartt) November 6, 2021
A huge crowd surge occurred at 9pm on Friday during the opening night of the festival in Houston, Texas.
The surge caused hundreds of people to be crushed, as the crowd pushed towards the stage.
Astroworld Festival has now been canceled, and Houston Police have set up a missing persons site for families still looking for loved ones.
