At
least eight people have died and scores of people have been hurt after a
crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in Houston, Texas.
Panic
broke out after the crowd began to compress towards the front of the
stage at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival, emergency officials said.
Eleven people were taken to hospitals in cardiac arrest and eight died.
Some 300 people were treated for injuries such as cuts and bruises at the event, attended by 50,000 people.