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PARTYGOERS STAMPEDED AT a huge Halloween event in Madrid in the early hours of this morning, creating a terrifying human crush that killed three young women, Spanish police said today.
Many young people were in tears as they battled against a human tide for the exits doors in a panic apparently sparked by someone throwing a flare, according to police and witnesses.
Some of the doors to the Madrid Arena stadium, which has a capacity for up to 10,500 people, had been sealed, one witness at the “Thriller Music Park” party said.
The crush, apparently in a passageway in the stadium, killed three women aged between 18 and 25 and left another two women with grave injuries, police officials said.
A witness described chaos with people fighting for a single door, a waiter trying to resuscitate one of the victims on the bar, and security agents pulling at fleeing youngsters.
“It seems to have been provoked by a flare that someone threw into the stadium,” a police spokesman said.
Police said they began fielding telephone calls at about 4:30am local time about a crush at the party which had promised a “theatrical atmosphere” and a costume contest based on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video.
“Human blockage”
“There was a human blockage at the one exit they had because the others were closed so that no-one could go out that way,” one of the youngsters at the party, Sandra, told Cadena Ser radio.
“There was only one door, there was a human blockage with a lot of security staff pulling people,” she added.
“People were crying, crushed, and there was no-one to help that girl: the waiter got up on to the bar and tried to resuscitate her.”
Officers, who completed an evacuation of the stadium by 7am, had already opened an investigation into whether the site had respected safety rules.
Fernando Prados, duty chief of Madrid emergency services, was on duty at the time of the disaster.
“We received a call at about 4am saying that there were several unconscious girls and when arrived there were five girls between 18 and 25 in respiratory arrest,” Prados said.
“We performed resuscitation on them and we managed to get a pulse for three of them,” he said. One of those women, however, died on the way to hospital, he told Cadena Ser.
“There were some stairs,” another witness told public television. “There was an avalanche of people and people fell over each other and amassed there and there was a crush.”
An employee from a nearby club said he believed there may have been too many people inside.
A police van and several police cars were at the stadium, which was closed off as police inspected the site under the scrutiny of a crowd of photographers and television cameras.
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Evil : just pure evil :
Mother and ‘boyfriend’ seems to be the common denominator here.
So if they were married it wouldn’t happen, I assume is what you’re implying?
I think he is saying that a dad has a connection to a child, and can protect the child. A home with multiple boyfriends doesn’t offer the same protection, don’t want to speak for him, that is what I think he meant.
If this was their fifth arrest in relation to child abuse, why haven’t they been locked away sooner? Or will this only happen once they’ve killed the girl? There’s something seriously f*cked up in a justice system, where you can abuse your child be arrested for it, and then are allowed to continue as if nothing happened
A child died after her mother poured boiling water on her face, one of the many reasons why I don’t believe in God. If a God can sit back and let that happen then there is absolutely no point in a “God” existing.
Is there a island that we can put all those horrible people on
Japan?
“Is there a island that we can put all those horrible people on”.
Yes, there is an island in Japan known as ‘Battleship Island’. If you google it you will see it would really would be perfect for these evil excuses for parents.
Mother and “boyfriend” seem to be a very common thread in a huge percentage of these cases. Very weak, stupid, compliant and self indulgent women and evil, controlling men. To allow your child to be abused by another is the ultimate betrayal of natural law and all that makes us human. Those women deserve to lose their children without any second chances. There’s a special place in hell for people who would deliberately and maliciously hurt a child. And animals.
We have had far worse cases in Ireland in the last few months.
Where was the father? He was obviously responsible.
She probably met up with him after she was released on bail.
Turn you’re stomach
She should sue she!
Ok that made me laugh.
What about us having to take cod liver oil!
Yeah Donie, along with a punch in the face and a ciggerette burn in your mouth.
Their not short on omega 3 anyway
The poor woman is obviously mentally disturbed and needs our help and sympathy. She was obviously acting under the influence of some evil male. He should be tracked down like a dog, horsewhipped and imprisoned for life.
The flipping Catholic Church has a lot to answer for!
The defence, “She came for it and by jaysus she got it!”
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