Panic spread after hundreds of thousands of music revellers were funnelled into a single highway underpassPhotograph: Getty ImagesPolice officers lift up a woman from the crush outside the tunnelPhotograph: ReutersChaos broke out after people continued to fill into the festival via a single entrance after being told over loudspeakers to turn back Photograph: Hermann J Knippertz/AP
An image taken from television showing people trying to escapePhotograph: APOrganisers have been criticised for allowing just one entrance into the music festival despite an expected crowd of 1.4 million peoplePhotograph: ReutersAn aerial view of the festival. Police made the decision to allow it to continue after the stampedePhotograph: Joerg Ehms/APFestivalgoers are attended to by paramedicsPhotograph: Getty ImagesRescue workers attend an injured person as firefighters and police officers stand beside casualtiesPhotograph: Stephan Eickershoff/APPeople receiving first aid after collapsing in the crushPhotograph: Hermann J Knippertz/APA wall decorated with flowers to commemorate the victims of the stampedePhotograph: Wolfgang Rattay/ReutersDemolished crowd barriers in the tunnelPhotograph: Getty ImagesAn emergency pastor arrives at the scene of the accidentPhotograph: Getty ImagesOfficers investigate the site near a staircase that many in the crowd used as an escape routePhotograph: Getty Images/Getty ImagesPolice officers and journalists walk through the tunnelPhotograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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