More than 19 people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crowd crush at Falls music and Art Festival at Lorne in victoria.
Chilling social media posts tell of the ‘stampede’ with partygoers describing broken bones, large cuts and even people performing CPR on the injured after a large crowd tried to leabe a bands set.
‘The screams you can hear in that are absolutely chilling,’ wrote a woman on Reddit.
One woman spoke to her sister and said she described people with broken bones, people passing out and limbs covered in blood.
‘No bodily function was possible, if you were lucky (sic) could only just breathe,’ she wrote.
‘A guy I play footy with is waiting to be air lifted out. Has limited feeling in his legs,’ described another person.
A statement from the Falls Festival Facebook page said up to 50 people were attended to after a large number of people were injured after those at the front of a crowd leaving the DMA’s set on route to London Grammar lost their footing at about 9.50pm on Friday.
No one sustained life-threatening injuries but 19 people were taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said in a statement.
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