8 dead after crowd surge at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival in Houston
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Eight people are confirmed dead and "scores of individuals" are injured after a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston, officials said.
The "mass casualty incident" occurred after 9 p.m. Friday night when a crowd began to "compress" toward the front of the stage, "and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries," Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña said early Saturday at a press conference.
"People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic," he said.
Authorities made two gruesome discoveries Tuesday after a Missouri woman walked into a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, officials said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morning.
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.