A nine-year-old boy placed in an induced coma after a crowd surge at the Astroworld festival in Houston, Texas, has died, a family lawyer says. Ezra Blount had been on life support in hospital due to severe brain and organ trauma since the show on 5 November. He is the youngest of 10 concertgoers to have been killed after panic broke out during rapper Travis Scott’s headline performance. Hundreds of others were hurt when the crowd began to press towards the stage. Attorneys representing more than 200 people claiming they were injured in the crush told reporters on Friday they were filing another 90 lawsuits against the promoters of the event.(BBC)…[+]