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Deaths, more than 340 injuries occurred during stampede in underpass. By James Montgomery Paramedics transport an injured person to an ambulance after a stampede at Germany’s Love Parade festival on July 24 Photo: Christoph Reichwein/ Getty Images Nineteen people were killed and more than 340 injured at the annual Love Parade music festival in the German city of Duisburg on Saturday, the result of a stampede that occurred beneath an overpass at the entrance of the festival grounds. According to The New York Times, police had closed off the festival grounds on Saturday evening, citing overcrowding (there were some 1.4 million people inside the Love Parade at the time), but failed to close off the entrance to a 200-meter long tunnel that led to the site of the concert.

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