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Astroworld Festival Releases Statement After Tragic Incident (Update)

<p>On Friday night&comma;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;eight-confirmed-dead-in-crowd-surge-at-astroworld-festival-video&sol;"> eight people were killed and several others injured after a crowd surge<&sol;a> at the Astroworld Festival that took place in Houston&comma; TX&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the official Instagram account&comma; the organizers released a statement about the event&period; It read&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Our hearts are with the Astroworld Festival family tonight — especially those we lost and their loved ones&period; We are focused on supporting local officials however we can&period; With that in mind&comma; the festival will no longer be held on Saturday&period;&&num;8221&semi; The message continued&comma; As authorities mentioned in their press conference earlier&comma; they are looking into the series of cardiac arrests that took place&period; If you have any relevant information on this&period; Please reach out to &commat;HoustonPolice&period; &&num;8220&semi;Thank you to our partners at the Houston Police Department&comma; Fire Department&comma; And NRG Park for their response and support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Travis Scott <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;travis-scott-releases-statement-after-tragic-event-im-absolutely-devastated&sol;">also released a statement that read<&sol;a>&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am absolutely devastated by what took pace last night&period; My prayers go out to the families and all those impacted by what happened at Astroworld Festival&period;” Travis continued to say&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Houston PD has my total support as they continue to look into the tragic loss of life&period;” Expressing his commitment to his home city&comma; Houston&comma; he added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am committed to working together with the Houston community to heal and support the families in need&period; Thanks you to Houston PD&comma; Fire Department and NRG Park for their support&period;” Travis ended his message with&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Love you all”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;On Friday night&comma; eight people were killed and several injured during a crowd surge at Travis Scott's third-annual Astroworld Festival&period;  Travis took to Twitter and expressed devastation about what occurred&period;">As previously reported<&sol;a>&comma; at around 9&colon;15p&period;m&period;&comma; the crowd started moving towards the front of the stage&period; Once people moved closer&comma; multiple individuals started passing out because they couldn’t breathe&comma; according to authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div dir&equals;"auto">&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage&comma; and people began to panic&comma;” Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña&period; stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At least two dozen people were taken to Houston hospitals&comma; and 11 were reported as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;CPR in progress&comma;” when they were transported&comma; 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