The incident occurred at Nigerian pop singer Asake’s concert at Brixton’s O2 Academy
London, Thanasis Gavos
Eight people were taken to hospital after they were trampled at the entrance to a concert venue in south London on Thursday night. Four of them are hospitalized in critical condition.
The incident occurred at Nigerian pop singer Asake’s concert at Brixton’s O2 Academy. According to the police, a number of people tried to enter the concert by breaching the entrance resulting in people being trampled.
Four people remain in a critical condition in hospital following crushing at the O2 Academy in Brixton last night.
Investigations are ongoing after a large crowd tried to gain access to the venue, where a police cordon remains in place this morning… pic.twitter.com/YttirG7RAB
— Greatest Hits Radio London News (@GHRLondonNews) December 16, 2022
The concert was interrupted with the announcement from the stage to the spectators stating that “3,000 people have broken the doors outside and for security reasons the police have asked us to close the show”.
Asake’s show was 🥶🥶. Well, we had organizers so it wasn’t his fault. From what we mostly observed, tickets were oversold at the moment, and a lot of people out there still had tickets. That could be the cause of the stampede..🍿#celeb9jah #Asake #Asaketickets pic.twitter.com/aHxcZRUvc0
— Celeb9jah (@No1_celeblogger) December 16, 2022
It has not been clarified whether those who tried to enter the concert causing the accident had tickets or not.
Brixton’s O2 Academy has a capacity of 4,921 spectators.
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