German prosecutors are investigating negligent manslaughter following the deaths of 19 people in a crowd crush at the Love Parade techno music festival.

German chancellor Angela Merkel 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.

THE head of a police union warned German authorities 12 months ago that the Love Parade in Duisburg at which 19 people died was an accident waiting to happen.

ANGRY survivors demanded answers from organisers after 19 people were killed in a stampede at Germany’s Love Parade and prosecutors launched an inquiry into how the tragedy unfolded.

THE death toll rose to 19 yesterday and police said that 340 had been injured in a panicked crush of partygoers in an overcrowded tunnel that served as the sole entrance to a German festival billed as the world’s largest techno music party.

A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans left 15 people dead and dozens injured at the famed Love Parade festival in western Germany today.

Hundreds of thousands of techno music fans – many in fancy dress, others wearing very little at all – jammed into central Berlin today for the German capital’s annual Love Parade.