DUISBURG, Germany, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Ten people were indicted in a stampede at the Love Parade music festival in Germany that killed 21 people in July 2010, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Senior prosecutor Michael Schwarz said six Duisburg city workers and four who worked for the event's organizers were charged with involuntary manslaughter and bodily injury caused by negligence, CNN reported.
In a statement, Schwarz said poor crowd-flow planning created a bottleneck in an underpass linking the festival's main site and an expansion area. Schwarz also said barriers installed without approval hemmed in the crowd, creating more congestion.
Witnesses told German television channel NTV the underpass became severely overcrowded, and some people who were pushed against the walls and each other fainted, triggering a panic that prompted the stampede.
Besides the 21 deaths, the Duisburg prosecutor's office said 652 people were injured, of whom 283 were hospitalized.
Witnesses told NTV police were warned about the overcrowded conditions in the underpass as least an hour before the stampede, CNN said. Another entryway was opened before the incident.
Immediately after the stampede, Love Parade organizers dissolved the annual electronica and techno music festival.
