![]() On Wednesday, the death count rose to nine, after 22-year-old Texas A&M student Bharti Shahani succumbed to her injuries. The account Lira shared with Insider reflects what many Astroworld attendees said they experienced on November 5, when a crowd of more than 50,000 surged toward the stage. I was holding another person's hand and I was just accepting that I was going to die." Then she passed out. ![]() "There was no light left of the concert at all," Lira says. She lost sight of the lasers, strobe lights, and pyrotechnics that made up Scott's performance as other people fell on top of her. Knowing the song would trigger jumping and moshing in the crowd, she resigned herself to being crushed to death. "I was like, 'I'm going to die because this man is not stopping the concert,'" Lira recalls. At one point, she heard Scott start in on the song "Stargazing," which includes the lyrics: "And it ain't no mosh pit if it ain't no injuries, I got 'em stage divin' out the nosebleeds." ![]() Lira screamed, but the music was too loud for anyone to hear her. "I was trying to get up as fast as I could, but people were landing on top of my legs and I couldn't move," she says. they're going to fall over each other." She describes a "sinkhole of people" opening up around her as bodies fell to the ground and started piling on top of each other. "In my mind, I was just like, 'Are you kidding me?' People are going to trample. Lira and her friend moved back a few rows from the stage before Scott started hyping up their section of the crowd. "We tried to move, we were like, 'Please, we're trying to leave.' This other girl was screaming and crying." "Our chests were cramped up, you could not breathe at all," she says. Just as the two turned to leave, Scott began playing the song "Escape Plan," and they were pushed back by another wave of people pressing towards the stage. "I'm going to pass out if I stay here," she told a friend. Lira decided she had enough about a minute before the rapper started performing. Fans pressed in from all sides, and Lira says she could barely find space on the ground to plant both feet. Lira says "a big wave of people" started pushing forward about 30 minutes before Scott took the stage. As the show neared, Lira remembers, the area filled up with concertgoers until it was no longer possible to sit. Scott's die-hard fans were sitting in the grass, biding their time. She wanted to stake out a prime position to watch Travis Scott's headlining set at the Astroworld festival, so she showed up three hours early. There was hardly anyone standing by the stage when Cynthia Lira arrived Friday at the NRG Stadium in Houston. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |