Date uploaded: 2021-11-11 20:29:00
A 22-year-old college student is the latest victim of Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival that turned deadly after an apparent crowd surge pushed concertgoers towards the stage.
The death of Bharti Shahani brings the tragic concert's toll to at least nine after scores of other attendees faced injuries, leaving some fighting for their lives.
Shahani died Wednesday evening at approximately 6:50 p.m. after being put on a ventilator at the hospital and showing no brain activity.
Shahani, a computer science major, attended the concert with her sister Namrata Shahani and her cousin Mohit Bellani, who described the crowd surge as a "sinkhole."
"Once one person fell, people started toppling like dominos. It was like a sinkhole. People were falling on top of each other," Bellani told KTRK. "There were like layers of bodies on the ground, like two people thick. We were fighting to come up to the top and breathe to stay alive."
In a Thursday statement, Scott's team said the rapper is "distraught" by the tragedy but will be working on providing aid to families who lost loved ones "as soon as possible."
