Eight killed after crowd surge at us music festival

At least eight people have died and scores of people have been hurt after a crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in Houston, Texas.

Eleven people were taken to hospitals in cardiac arrest and eight died. Some casualties are aged as young as 10. Some 50,000 people attended the outdoor event, which has been cancelled.

The incident began around 21:15 on Friday (02:15 GMT Saturday), Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña said.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Travis Scott, who founded the festival, stopped multiple times during his 75-minute performance when he spotted fans in distress near the front of the stage.

Fans pressed up against each other near the front of the main stage, eyewitnesses told the Chronicle. In some places, people were so crammed together that they started hyperventilating or struggling to leave.

Some 300 people were treated for injuries such as cuts and bruises on Friday. Judge Hidalgo said “many” of those killed at the festival had been “tragically young”.

Heat camera shows migrants stranded between Poland and Belarus

The Polish Ministry of Defence has released heat camera footage showing people gathering in makeshift migrant camps on the border between Poland and Belarus.

The migrants – who are mainly young men – are enduring freezing conditions in the hopes of reaching the EU.

The EU has accused Belarus of luring migrants to the border to destabilise he blocs eastern border, in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Minsk.

Russia, Belarus’s main ally, has rejected these aaccusations.

The BBC’s Nick Beake has travelled to a forest where at least nine migrants are known to have died of hypothermia.