15 killed in stampede at Germany's Love Parade

German police have raised the death toll to 15 in a stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans. Police say dozens more were injured.

Police originally said 10 people were killed but later reported 5 more fatalities at the Love Parade on Saturday in the western German city of Duisburg.

The German news agency DAPD reported the stampede broke out after authorities tried to stop thousands of people from entering the area where the parade was being held.

DAPD reported the victims were crushed and that emergency workers had trouble getting through to them.

The all-news station n-tv said the party continued after the accident, with many of the other participants unaware of the stampede.

The Love Parade was once an institution in Berlin, but has been held in the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany since 2007.

The original Berlin Love Parade grew from a 1989 peace demonstration into a huge outdoor celebration of club culture that drew about 1.5 million people at its peak in 1999. But it suffered from financial problems and tensions with city officials in later years, and eventually moved.