The Astroworld Tragedy Takes Another Devastating Turn

Adding to the death toll of the deadly Astroworld Festival, CBS News reported that 22-year-old Bharti Shahani died in the hospital on the evening of November 10. She succumbed to her injuries sustained at the concert almost a week before, becoming the ninth casualty from the event. Her family's attorney confirmed her death on November

Adding to the death toll of the deadly Astroworld Festival, CBS News reported that 22-year-old Bharti Shahani died in the hospital on the evening of November 10. She succumbed to her injuries sustained at the concert almost a week before, becoming the ninth casualty from the event. Her family's attorney confirmed her death on November 11. Shahani was a college student at Texas A&M University, working toward a degree in computer science. She attended the festival with her younger sister Namrata, and their cousin Mohit Bellani. Hospital staff told Bellani, who was the first family member to arrive at the hospital, that Shahani had been intubated after suffering two heart attacks.

"They suffocated Bharti," Bellani said in a press conference, per ABC13. "They did this to the 9-year-old boy right now in the ICU who's fighting for his life. They did this to the other 8 people who also lost their lives that night. There're so many families grieving in hospitals right now." Shahani leaves behind another sister, as well as her mother and father, and a beautiful dog named Blue.

The other eight deaths from the festival are all young people, mostly in their twenties, and mostly from Texas, though one came from Washington, and two best friends came from Illinois. The oldest was 27-year-old Houston resident Mirza Baig. The two youngest victims were teenagers from Houston: high schooler Brianna Rodriguez was only 16, and John Hilgert was a Memorial High School freshman, only 14 years old.

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