NEW: A ninth person is confirmed dead after the tragic crowd surge at the Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld festival in Houston last week. Bharti Shahani, 22, died after being hospitalized from injuries she sustained at the concert.
Bharti Shahani, 22, died after being hospitalized from injuries she sustained at the concert.
"Bharti is love. You know what is love? Bharti is love," her mother Karishma Shahani said tearfully at a press conference."What happened to my blessing? I want my baby back. I won't be able to live without her." Shahani, a student at Texas A&M University, was taken to Houston Methodist Hospital, where her family says she had been on a ventilator and had heart failure.Bharti Shahani, 22, is pictured in an undated family photo. Shahani passed away on Nov. 10, 2021, bringing the Astroworld festival death toll to nine.
She was one of many who were injured in the tragedy at the Astroworld festival, when concertgoers rushed toward the stage. Some concert attendees recalled being pushed into one another from all sides, pushed down to the floor and trampled or crushed by other concertgoers.
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