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Saturday, 1 July, 2000, 14:27 GMT 15:27 UK
Picture gallery: Roskilde tragedy
An investigation is under way in Denmark into how eight people were
crushed to death at the Roskilde music festival concert.
![]() The victims were crushed or trampled as fans surged forward during a performance by Pearl Jam
![]() The band asked the crowd to move back and stopped the performance when that did not happen
![]() As the deaths were announced over the loudspeakers, some concert-goers began crying
![]() By first light, the scene at Roskilde was grim, but organisers said the festival would go on
![]() Festival-goers have been lighting candles and laying flowers in memory to the people killed
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