Festival
Organisers of Germany's annual Love Parade festival have chosen not to stage the event again after chaos broke out in Duisburg on Saturday and left 19 revellers dead.
The music fans died in a crush as organisers attempted to open an area to accommodate swelling crowds. Hundreds more were left seriously injured and some had to be airlifted to hospitals across Germany.
City officials and promoters have been criticised for seriously underestimating the size of the crowd - they expected 700,000 people to attend the dance music celebration but twice as many fans showed up.
One festival organiser, Rainer Schaller, announced 2010's Love Parade would be the last at a press conference on Sunday. He said, "It will always be overshadowed by yesterday's events. It's over for the Love Parade."
DJ Matthias Roeingh, who founded the festival in 1989, added, "This absolutely didn't need to happen. I put a lot of blame on the organisers."
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a thorough investigation of what went wrong, stating, "We have to do everything we can so that something like this isn't repeated."
The deaths occurred in an underpass that was opened to allow crowds to move from one overcrowded site to another venue. Ironically, last year's Love Parade in Bochum was cancelled after city officials determined that they didn't have a site large enough to hold the potential crowd.