{"id":1032750,"date":"2021-11-19T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1032750"},"modified":"2021-11-19T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T20:44:06","slug":"fact-check-did-close-to-hundreds-of-people-die-at-astroworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-close-to-hundreds-of-people-die-at-astroworld\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did \u2018Close To Hundreds\u2019 Of People Die At Astroworld?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-close-to-hundreds-of-people-die-at-astroworld%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1032750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10222194306818940&amp;set=a.1369078739326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims \u201cclose to hundreds\u201d of people died at the Astroworld music festival.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7324552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7324552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Officials have reported that 10 people died, not \u201cclose to hundreds.\u201d The investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least 10 people were killed and dozens more injured during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/4019162\/what-is-a-crowd-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crowd surge<\/a> at Travis Scott\u2019s Nov. 5 Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/14\/us\/astroworld-festival-child-death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. The scene was quickly declared a \u201cmass casualty event\u201d by police, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/11\/travis-scott-performed-30-minutes-after-astroworld-declared-mass-casualty-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/15\/fact-check-astroworld-live-nation-venue-capacity-20000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Astroworld\u2019s Venue Capacity 20,000?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Nov. 6 post shared on Facebook, however, alleges the death toll is much higher. \u201cThere are several accounts that claim the local news in #Houston is lying,\u201d reads the text in the post. \u201cIt\u2019s not just \u20188\u2019 it\u2019s close to hundreds.\u201d The post appears to be alluding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/arts-culture-news\/2021\/11\/09\/412969\/the-8-victims-killed-at-fridays-astroworld-festival-have-been-identified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial<\/a> death toll, which was eight but <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/astroworld-music-festival-deaths-travis-scott-8943dae398c68b3a9198c7763f62647e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rose<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/14\/us\/astroworld-festival-child-death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to<\/a> 10 in the following days.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence the death toll is \u201cclose to hundreds.\u201d In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/gibson-reiser\/watch\/houston-fire-chief-on-astroworld-festival-where-8-people-died-125562437734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with MSNBC<\/a> on Nov. 6, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena stated that eight people had died due to injuries suffered at the concert and warned the number \u201cmay rise because we did transport more people in critical condition\u2026to the hospital.\u201d This initial death toll figure is reiterated in a Nov. 9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/mayor\/press\/2021\/astroworld-festival-permits-released.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> from the Houston mayor\u2019s office. As Pena warned, the death toll subsequently rose to 10 after the deaths of 22-year-old Bharti Shahani on Nov. 10 and 9-year-old Ezra Blount on Nov. 14, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/astroworld-festival-victims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Both had sustained injuries at the Nov. 5 concert, the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/astroworld-festival-victims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Arnold, a spokesperson for the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, a group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/astroworld-fest-tragedy\/article\/Autopsies-finished-for-Astroworld-victims-but-16602766.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigating<\/a> the tragedy, confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact that 10 people had died as a result of the concert, not \u201cclose to hundreds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims \u201cclose to hundreds\u201d of people died at the Astroworld music festival.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False Officials have reported that 10 people died, not \u201cclose to hundreds.\u201d The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}