Pop festival toll reaches nine

Copenhagen - An Australian man died yesterday from injuries sustained in a crowd surge at the Roskilde music festival over the…

Copenhagen - An Australian man died yesterday from injuries sustained in a crowd surge at the Roskilde music festival over the weekend, taking the death toll to nine, Danish police said.

He and the other young male victims - three Danes, three Swedes, a German and a Dutchman - were trampled during an open-air performance by the US rock group Pearl Jam.

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