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Rapper Travis Scott at the Astroworld Festival
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A nine year old boy from Dallas is the youngest person to be killed after the mass panic at the Astroworld festival.
Ezra Blount died on Sunday in a children's hospital in the US state of Texas, the family lawyer said.
The boy was placed in an artificial coma after being seriously injured at the festival on November 5th.
Blount is the tenth person killed in the accident.
The mass panic occurred at the Astroworld Festival in downtown Houston with around 50,000 spectators.
It had broken out during the performance of the rapper Travis Scott.
Several other people were injured.
Treston Blount, the boy's father, writes on the GoFundMe donation page what should have happened that day: Ezra was sitting on his shoulders during the festival when a crowd ran over them.
The father lost consciousness and when he came to, he could no longer find his son.
He only saw Ezra again in the hospital.
In the days after the accident, the first lawsuits were filed against the organizer Live Nation and Travis Scott, among others.
In a lawsuit, the rapper is accused of causing chaos.
Investigations into the causes of the mass panic are currently ongoing.
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