9th person dies following Astroworld festival tragedy
Bharti Shahani, 22, was a student at Texas A&M University.
A ninth person is confirmed dead after the tragic crowd
surge at the Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld festival in Houston last
week.
Bharti Shahani, 22, died after being hospitalized from
injuries she sustained at the concert.
"Bharti is love. You know what is love? Bharti is
love," her mother Karishma Shahani said tearfully at a press conference.
"What happened to my blessing? I want my baby back. I won't be able to
live without her."
Shahani, a student at Texas A&M University, was taken to
Houston Methodist Hospital, where her family says she had been on a ventilator
and had heart failure.
She was one of many who were injured in the tragedy at the
Astroworld festival, when concertgoers rushed toward the stage.
Some concert attendees recalled being pushed into one
another from all sides, pushed down to the floor and trampled or crushed by
other concertgoers.
Shahani's cousin Mohit Bellani and her sister Namrata
Shahani also attended the concert and recalled the chaos.
"Once one person fell, people started toppling like
dominos. It was like a sinkhole. People were falling on top of each
other," Bellani said, ABC station KTRK in Houston reported. "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."
Now, the family is demanding answers and justice for their daughter.
"Please make sure that she gets justice,"
Shahani's father said. "I don't want somebody else's daughter to go like
this. I kept hearing the news and all that, but for the last six days, I've not
slept."
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