The death toll of the Astroworld Musical Festival stampede in Houston rises to 9 with the death of Bharti Shahani on Wednesday.
Bharti was one of the injured people who was suffering due to the massacre caused at the Travis Scott concert, the Attorney of Shahani's family announced the sad news of her demise.
The incident reportedly took place at around 9.15 p.m. on Friday night when rapper Travis Scott was performing.
The young 22-year-old Texas A&M University senior had critical injuries on Friday and she was hospitalized soon after the tragedy,
said the Attorney.
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She showed no brain activity shortly after her hospitalization, according to a report from local media outlet ABC13.
Shahani, her sister Namrata Shahani and her cousin Mohit Bellani went to the concert together, but lost each other when the crowd surged, said the report.
"Once one person fell, people started toppling like dominos. It was like a sinkhole. People were falling on top of each other," Bellani said. "There were like layers of bodies on the ground, like two people thick. We were fighting to come up to the top and breathe to stay alive."
Bharti has been studying electronics systems engineering at her university, and is set to graduate in the spring, Xinhua news agency reported.
Dozens of people were injured in the stampede at the music festival. A 9-year-old child was seriously injured and has been in a medically induced coma for nearly a week, his family said.
The tragedy occurred just after 9 p.m. local time (0300 GMT on Saturday) as rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the sold-out outdoor music festival with about 50,000 attendees.
A CNN report said as of Wednesday, at least 58 lawsuits have been filed in civil court on behalf of the Astroworld attendees.
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An investigation into the stampede is now underway.
