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Stampede at German music festival

Death toll at German festival stampede rises to 20

The death toll at Saturday's mass panic during the Love Parade, an electric music festival held in Germany's western city Duisburg has risen to 20 on late Monday, local police said. Full story

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2010-07-31 23:27:25 GMT Xinhua English Norbert Lammert, president of the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament), German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bettina Wulff, her husband German President Christian Wulff and North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier Hannelore Kraft attend a commemoration service for the stampede victims at the Salvatorkirche church in Duisburg of Germany on July 31, 2010.

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2010-07-29 02:52:21 GMT Xinhua English BERLIN, July 28 (Xinhua) -- State authorities' preliminary investigation showed on Wednesday that the organizers of the music festival Love Parade in the German city Duisburg should bear the most blame for the fatal stampede which killed 21 people and injured more than 500 others last Saturday.

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2010-07-28 07:12:11 GMT SINA.com A memorial service will be held for the 20 people crushed to death in a mass panic at the Love Parade techno festival, German officials said Tuesday, as hundreds of people lit candles, left notes and placed flowers at the site of the tragedy.

Death toll at German festival stampede rises to 20

2010-07-26 20:47:53 GMT Xinhua English DUISBURG, Germany, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The death toll at Saturday's mass panic during the Love Parade, an electric music festival held in Germany's western city Duisburg has risen to 20 on late Monday, local police said.

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Mourning ceremony held after 19 killed in German music festival

2010-07-26 07:48:58 GMT Xinhua English DUISBURG, Germany, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A mourning ceremony was held here on Monday to pay homage to stampede victims during Germany's famed Love Parade festival.

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Demonstrators ask mayor to resign over Duisburg stampede

2010-07-30 03:46:48 GMT Xinhua English People hold a demonstration outside the city hall in Duisburg, western Germany, on July 29, 2010, to call for the resignation of mayor Adolf Sauerland over the Love Parade disaster, in which 21 people died and more than 500 were injured in a stampede on July 24.

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2010-07-29 02:48:27 GMT Xinhua English A condolent message writen in Chinese is pictured near the site of stampede in Duisburg, July 28, 2010. The Love Parade, a festival for electric music fans from all over the world, turned out to be a great tragedy on July 24 as a massive panic at the entrance tunnel caused a stampede which killed 21 people, 16 on the scene, and injured more than 500.

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