Several injured after Beyoncé show when cockroach caused a stampede

Several members of the Beyhive were injured in a Stampede metro station after the last night of Beyoncé in Atlanta for her in progress Cowboy Carter tour.

A spokesperson for Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (Marta) confirmed Weekly entertainment That 11 people were injured as they left the Mercedes-Benz stadium just after midnight on Tuesday July 15 following an incident involving an insect.

Police on the scene quoted a keen cry from a young fan reacting to an insect, according to Marta’s spokesperson. The fan, identified only as a 10 -year -old child, shouted at the sight of a Bug de Palmett, or cockroach, said Marta police chief Scott Kreher told Local Outlet 11alive.

The child would then have run, causing a hysteria on an escalator at Vine City station while passengers crowded. The jostling accelerated the escalator before stopping sudden. One person has undergone a broken ankle while seven other people were transported to the hospital with cuts and scratches.

Marta’s spokesman also underlined EW to a Tiktok since deleted from a woman who said it was her 10-year-old cousin who inadvertently caused chaos, losing more information on the event. In the video no longer available, she detailed the efforts of control of the crowd at the escalator, noting that a Gardon, “probably the size of my little finger”, had started to “run towards” the direction of her cousin while she was waiting to get on the escalat.

“Her cry was so noisy and so high, then she started running,” she said. “Everyone at the front [of the line] knew what was going on. We were like, oh he is a roach. But not everyone did it. Everyone has just heard shouting and saw people running and everyone started running. “Confusion led others on the escalator to start running and” trampling people, “she said, adding that she and her family were” extremely sorry “for what happened.

Beyoncé, who launched her tenth concert tour to support her country album defying the genre of the same name in April in Los Angeles, should conclude the race in Las Vegas on July 26.

Friday, Marta police did not respond to the request for additional EW comments.