By
The Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia - A teen-age girl who suffered a heart attack while caught in a crush during a performance by U.S. rap-rock group Limp Bizkit died yesterday, five days after the concert, a hospital spokesman said.
Six other people were hospitalized in the crush at a touring multi-band event called the Big Day Out, which drew a crowd of 55,000 fans.
Limp Bizkit pulled out of its Australian tour after the crush last Friday and criticized concert organizers for providing inadequate security and safety measures - a claim organizers denied.
However, Big Day Out organizer Creative Entertainment agreed the event had become too big in Sydney and promised to either sell fewer tickets next year or spread it over two days.
Organizers blamed Limp Bizkit's volatile fans, not a lack of planning, for the problems, saying in a statement that Limp Bizkit's performance was "of sufficient intensity to provoke unprecedented and ferocious crowd activity in front of the stage."
