GUATEMALA CITY — At least nine other people were killed, including two 12-year-old boys, in a stampede during a rock concert in the western Guatemalan city of Quetzaltenango, government and emergency facilities said Thursday.
Six other people were injured during the outdoor festival early Thursday, according to Maria del Carmen Sajquim, spokeswoman for Guatemala’s Western Regional Hospital.
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The injured were taken to hospital and reportedly suffered fractures, firefighters said earlier on Twitter.
Witnesses at the scene said the scene had two exits and chaos ensued as everyone ran towards the exits.
Local media described the place where more than 10 bands played as an annual occasion marking Independence Day in the Central American country.
The stampede is one of many fatal injuries at public events that Latin America has witnessed in recent years.
In June, another 4 people were killed and about 70 injured when part of a bleachstand collapsed in an arena in the Colombian town of El Espinal.
In one of the region’s most tragic events, a 2004 fireplace at a Buenos Aires nightclub killed another 194 people after a spectator unleashed a flare in the crowded corridor shortly after rock band Callejeros took the stage. (Reporting by Enrique Garcia; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Cynthia Osterman)
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