
Astroworld now joins other deadly concert crowd tragedies
CNN
Over the weekend, eight people were killed and many more injured during rapper Travis Scott's Houston music festival Astroworld.
Authorities are investigating what led to the tragedy.
While there have been horrific mass casualty concert events, such as the 2017 terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande performance at Britain's Manchester Arena and the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas the same year, there have also been deaths and injuries related to crowd surges and stampedes.

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