At least 15 people are now known to have been killed and 10 more seriously injured after panic broke out at the Love Parade techno music festival in Germany this afternoon.
Overcrowding at an entrance gate to a former freight rail station where the festival was being held sparked a stampede in the western city of Duisburg.
Ambulances rushed to pick up victims and police set up an emergency first aid station near to the entrance gate.
The annual event, first held in Berlin in 1989, was hosted in Duisburg this year, drawing 1.4 million people.
Some media were reporting at least 100 injured.
The German news agency DAPD reports that the stampede broke out after authorities tried to stop thousands of people from entering the area where the festival was being held.
DAPD says the victims were crushed and that emergency workers had trouble getting through to them.