2023-06-18 21:43:00
A stampede of people during a concert in the city of Sucre, in the southeast of Bolivia, left a 17-year-old girl dead and seven more injured, the director of a hospital reported this Sunday.
“The 17-year-old girl unfortunately arrived deceased [al hospital]they did resuscitation maneuvers,” but without results, María Elena Lescano, director of the San Pedro Claver Hospital in Sucre, told television channels.
According to the first data from the doctors who helped her, the woman “had many bruises on her body,” Lescano said.
The incidents occurred on Saturday night during a concert by the Argentine cumbia groups Ke Personajes and 18 Kilates at the Lajastambo Fairgrounds, a venue with a capacity for some 20,000 people.
The doctor said that seven people were also injured, all female, one of them with “polytrauma.”
According to Lescano, “there was a concert and there was an avalanche of people.”
According to the local press, the tickets to the concert venue were sold out in advance, but groups of people tried to break in, causing the riot.
Others tried to leave and in the confusion the incidents originated.
Images circulated on social networks of dozens of people fleeing the place, forcing the metal mesh.
Consulted by AFP, the Ministry of the Interior (Interior) has not yet given an official version of the events.
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