Six people have been killed and about 35 others injured in a stampede of panicked concertgoers at a disco in a small town on Italy’s Adriatic coast, authorities said.
By Associated Press Reporters
December 8 2018 5:56 AM
Six people have been killed and about 35 others injured in a stampede of panicked concertgoers at a disco in a small town on Italy’s Adriatic coast, authorities said.
The dead included three girls and two boys and an adult woman, a mother who had accompanied her daughter to the disco in Corinaldo, where an Italian rapper was entertaining the crowd, Ancona police chief Oreste Capocasa said at the scene.
Twelve of the 35 injured were in serious condition, Mr Capocasa said.
The provincial capital of Ancona is the nearest big town.
The ages of the victims were not immediately given and it was not immediately clear how many people were inside when the stampede erupted or the club’s maximum capacity.
Italian fire officials and ANSA news agency said the audience at Italian rapper Sfera Ebbasta’s concert at the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub panicked and ran for the exits after someone sprayed a substance similar to pepper spray.
