Monday, July 26, 2010

Pope expresses sorrow for music festival tragedy

During Sunday's Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI remembered the young people who died at a music festival called the Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany. According to CBCNews:
A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans crushed 18 people to death and injured 80 at Germany's famed Love Parade festival on Saturday.
Thousands of other revellers kept partying at the event in Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, unaware of the deadly stampede that started when police tried to block thousands more people from entering the already-jammed parade grounds.
Police are still trying to determine exactly what happened, but the situation was "very chaotic," police commissioner Juergen Kieskemper said.

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