18 killed and 120 injured in mass panic at German music festival
Surinder Mansukh
Jul. 24, 2010

''The young people came to celebrate and instead there are dead and injured,'' said Chancellor Angela Merkel. ''I am horrified by the suffering and the pain.''

Crowds of people streaming into a techno music festival surged through an already jammed entry tunnel, setting off a panic. The number of people killed are much higher according to unofficial reports. German media said 1.4 million people attended.

Police commissioner Juergen Kieskemper confirmed that just before the stampede occurred at about 5 p.m. (1500 GMT, 11 a.m. EDT), police closed off the area where the parade was being held because it was already overcrowded.

"At some point the column (of people) got stuck, probably because everything was closed up front, and we saw that the first people were already lying on the ground," he said.

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