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Is Thomas Drought OK? Boy, 10, battling for life after Astroworld stampede

Unverified sources on Twitter claimed that he has succumbed to his injuries, but no official report has been released confirming the news

At least eight people died and several others injured when chaos broke out at Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, on Friday night, November 5. Video footage of the festival is being widely circulated on social media, showing a stampede of fans breaking through a fence, and people attending the festival dancing on ambulances.

"The crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries," Houston fire chief Samuel Peña told reporters. "People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic." A "mass casualty" event led to scores of people being rushed to hospitals, with as many as 11 people reportedly suffering cardiac arrests.

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Among the several people who were heavily injured in the stampede was 10-year-old Thomas Drought, who was found on the floor of the concert with head injuries, as per sources. However, unverified sources on Twitter claimed that he has succumbed to his injuries, but no official report has been released confirming the news.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that the concert promoter has been previously cited for safety issues by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Live Nation Entertainment, arguably the largest live music promoter in the world, has had been fined or sued for issues ranging from botched crowd control to equipment issues at various concert venues in the past decade. Authorities are investigating the security measures in place at the event. 

Several witness counts have come out describing the horror and helplessness they felt at the concert. One such attendee, who was an ICU nurse, has claimed that there was a lack of medics at the scene and teenagers were performing CPR on those who were injured. “There was not enough people to rotate out doing compressions on individuals that were actually pulseless. the medical staff didn’t have the tools to do their jobs. and despite the crowd around us trying to get someone to stop the concert they just kept going. even though travis acknowledged that someone in the crowed needed an ambulance," the nurse said. 

“Teenagers are doing CPR trying to help but they're doing it incorrectly, then I see there's other people doing CPR on people who still have a pulse bc nobody has done a pulse check. It was an absolute shit show,” before adding: “People were beginning the crew operating the stage lights and stuff around us to stop the concert and they wouldn't," the nurse added. Several people took to Twitter to make similar claims.