Houston, United States | AFP | A 22-year-old student caught in the crowd at the Astroworld festival in Texas succumbed to her injuries, family members announced Thursday, becoming the concert’s ninth fatality.
Bharti Shahani was admitted to a hospital in the greater Texas area for almost a week.
“I just want to meet my baby,” her mother pleaded through tears in front of reporters.
Bharti Shahani attended the concert of the American rapper Travis Scott, where after a terrible human avalanche another eight people were killed and hundreds injured.
“One person fell, and the others continued like dominoes,” Mohit Bellani, cousin of the young woman who died on Thursday, told local television ABC13, whom he accompanied to the event.
“There were bodies piled up, we struggled to surface and breathe to stay alive,” he said.
A 9-year-old boy, Ezra Blount, is between life and death.
Dozens of complaints have already been filed against the organizers of this deadly concert.
The main defendant is rapper Travis Scott, central organizer of the festival and present on stage at the time of the tragedy.
