This report states 10 but its now at least 15
At least 10 people have been killed and 15 injured when mass panic broke out in a tunnel at Germany's Love Parade.
Thousands of people have gathered in the city of Duisberg for the annual techno music festival.
"Initial information shows 10 people were killed in a mass panic by an entrance tunnel, 10 had to be resuscitated and 15 more were injured," police director Ralf Klauck said.
The stampede broke out after authorities tried to stop thousands of people from entering the area where the parade is being held, said German news agency DAPD.
Emergency workers had trouble getting to the victims who were crushed, the agency added.
Kate Connolly from The Guardian told Sky News: "Medical staff had to fight through the massive crowd to reach them."
She added: "Some German TV stations are reporting that 15 people have died and some eyewitness at the festival said they have seen 11 bodies under white sheets."
Connolly told Sky how police had been careful not to tell the other festival-goers what had happened so as not to provoke any more panic.
She said: "There were 1.4 million revellers taking part in this festival and some 1,200 police there.
"But the question is whether the police really did understand how to control that many people."
She said the entire event had been fenced off and police removed the barrier after people were being crushed up against it.
"There are lots of people in the crowd who are saying the police seemed to be a complete loss as to what to do when this panic broke out."
Connolly went on: "I think the tunnel was just purely too narrow to cope with the numbers of people who took that short cut. It clearly was the case it should have been shut."
The Love Parade grew from a 1989 peace demonstration in Berlin into a huge outdoor celebration of club culture.
About 1.5 million people attended at its peak in 1999.
Since 2007 it has been held in the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany after suffering financial problems and tensions with city officials in Berlin.
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At least 10 people have been killed and 15 injured when mass panic broke out in a tunnel at Germany's Love Parade.
Thousands of people have gathered in the city of Duisberg for the annual techno music festival.
"Initial information shows 10 people were killed in a mass panic by an entrance tunnel, 10 had to be resuscitated and 15 more were injured," police director Ralf Klauck said.
The stampede broke out after authorities tried to stop thousands of people from entering the area where the parade is being held, said German news agency DAPD.
Emergency workers had trouble getting to the victims who were crushed, the agency added.
Kate Connolly from The Guardian told Sky News: "Medical staff had to fight through the massive crowd to reach them."
She added: "Some German TV stations are reporting that 15 people have died and some eyewitness at the festival said they have seen 11 bodies under white sheets."
Connolly told Sky how police had been careful not to tell the other festival-goers what had happened so as not to provoke any more panic.
She said: "There were 1.4 million revellers taking part in this festival and some 1,200 police there.
"But the question is whether the police really did understand how to control that many people."
She said the entire event had been fenced off and police removed the barrier after people were being crushed up against it.
"There are lots of people in the crowd who are saying the police seemed to be a complete loss as to what to do when this panic broke out."
Connolly went on: "I think the tunnel was just purely too narrow to cope with the numbers of people who took that short cut. It clearly was the case it should have been shut."
The Love Parade grew from a 1989 peace demonstration in Berlin into a huge outdoor celebration of club culture.
About 1.5 million people attended at its peak in 1999.
Since 2007 it has been held in the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany after suffering financial problems and tensions with city officials in Berlin.
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