BERLIN - At least 10 people were killed and 10 were seriously injured after panic broke out at a "Love Parade" music festival in Germany on Saturday, police said.
Overcrowding at an entrance gate to a former freight rail station where the techno music festival was being held sparked a stampede in the western city of Duisburg.
Ambulances rushed to pick up victims and police set up an emergency first aid station near to the entrance gate.
"Initial information shows 10 people were killed in a mass panic by an entrance tunnel, 10 had to be resuscitated and 15 more were injured," Duisburg police director Ralf Klauck said.
The annual event, first held in Berlin in 1989, was hosted in Duisburg this year, drawing 1.4 million people.
Some media were reporting at least 100 injured, and Sky News, citing broadcaster RTL, reported 11 dead.
