Six persons died and dozens were injured in a stampede when panic broke out during a rap concert at an Italian nightclub Saturday morning, the fire service said.
Media reports say the suspected use of a pepper spray-like substance sparked the chaos at the venue in the town of Corinaldo, near Ancona in central Italy.
“The cause may have been the dispersal of a stinging substance, the young people fled and trampled over each other. Sadly, six people died and dozens are injured,” the fire service said in a statement on Twitter.
The victims include five people under the age of 18 — three girls and two boys – and an adult woman who accompanied her daughter to the concert, media reports say.
They said 12 of the injured were in serious condition.
Witnesses said people were crushed to death after falling from a small wall as they attempted to flee.
Around 1,000 people — many of them young — were in the Lanterna…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
