German chancellor Angela Merkel has promised an "intense" investigation into the deaths of 19 people at a techno music festival as witnesses put the blame on police and security staff. German media said as many as 1.4 million people turned up at the Love Parade, where a mass panic on Saturday crushed 19 people to death and injured 342 others. Police blamed organisers and officials in Duisburg, an industrial city that gave the world's largest techno music festival a home after it was driven from...
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