Nightclub stampede kills 6 in Italy, 5 of them teenagers

Nightclub stampede kills 6 in Italy
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Six people were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede at a nightclub in Corinaldo, Italy, early Saturday.

A crowd of hundreds was waiting to see a rapper named Sfera Ebbasta when someone reportedly fired pepper spray inside the club. A stampede ensued, and protective railways by an emergency exit gave way. Five of those killed were teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16, and one, a 39-year-old woman, was accompanying her daughter to the concert.

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"These [victims] are young people. It's absurd to die this way," said Luigi Di Maio, Italy's deputy prime minister. "As a government we will do everything we can to clarify the circumstances and make sure the security norms were followed."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.