Los Olivos stampede: Difference between revisions

 

==Stampede==

Local authorities were dispatched to the Thomas Restobar nightclub after receiving complaints from residents that about twenty to thirty people were in the club in violation of the government's ban on gatherings.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Acosta|first=Sebastián|date=22 August 2020|title=Los Olivos: Al menos 13 personas murieron tras una intervención policial en fiesta en una discoteca|url=https://rpp.pe/lima/actualidad/los-olivos-al-menos-10-personas-murieron-tras-una-intervencion-policial-en-fiesta-en-una-discoteca-noticia-1288141|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 August 2020|website=[[Radio Programas del Perú|RPP]]|language=es}}</ref> The crowd had instead amounted to over 120 people, with the authorities realizing this shortly after their raid began at about 9:00{{nbsp}}p.m. [[Time in Peru|PET]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> Peruvian authorities reported that police attempted to calmly disperse the gathering, though panicked guests [[Stampede|stampeded]] on the stairs from the second level when attempting to flee from the scene.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> Police had to forcibly pull the doors of the club open with ropes attached to trucks due to the amount of people crowding the exit.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=23 August 2020|title=Policiales: Los Olivos: 13 muertos en discoteca durante intervención|url=https://elcomercio.pe/lima/policiales/los-olivos-12-personas-perdieron-la-vida-en-una-discoteca-durante-una-intervencion-policial-fotos-nndc-noticia/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 August 2020|website=[[El Comercio (Perú)|El Comercio]]|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Acosta|first=Sebastián|date=22 August 2020|title=Los Olivos: Al menos 13 personas murieron tras una intervención policial en fiesta en una discoteca|url=https://rpp.pe/lima/actualidad/los-olivos-al-menos-10-personas-murieron-tras-una-intervencion-policial-en-fiesta-en-una-discoteca-noticia-1288141|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 August 2020|website=[[Radio Programas del Perú|RPP]]|language=es}}</ref>