GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — At least nine other people were killed in a stampede during a rock concert in the western Guatemalan town of Quetzaltenango, emergency facilities said Thursday.
Two 12-year-old boys were among the dead, according to Maria del Carmen Sajquim, a spokeswoman for Guatemala’s Western Regional Hospital.
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Six other people were injured, he added.
The injured were taken to hospital and reportedly suffered fractures, firefighters said earlier on Twitter.
Witnesses at the scene said the event only had two exits.
Rescuers were helping the injured and ambulances were on the scene, Guatemalan Red Cross photographs showed on Twitter. Local media described the concert as an annual occasion to commemorate Independence Day in the Central American country. (Reporting by Gustavo Garcia; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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