Attendees at Astroworld have filed another 90 lawsuits

During Travis Scott's performance, nine people died and hundreds more were injured.

Lawyers for more than 200 persons who claim to have been wounded at last week's Astroworld Festival have announced that they have filed 90 new cases.

A "mass casualty" catastrophe occurred when Travis Scott was onstage at the festival last weekend, killing nine people and injuring hundreds more.

Suits have been filed against Scott, festival organisers Live Nation, and others in the aftermath of the disaster.

At a news conference in Houston earlier today, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing a number of Astroworld victims, said, "We represent more than 200 victims who were injured mentally, physically, and psychologically at the Astroworld Festival."

"No one should ever die as a result of attending a performance," he continued. "So this lawsuit isn't only about gaining justice for them; it's also about ensuring that the promoters and organisers understand that anything like this will never happen again."

Lawyer Alex Hilliard also charged promoters with criminal negligence for failing to have an emergency plan in place, as well as proper medical personnel and equipment.

"We're talking about the world's largest promoter and organiser of festivals and concerts," Hilliard stated during the press conference. "And it's criminal when that happens, when a failure of epic proportions on this scale occurs."

Scott's lawyer, Edwin McPherson, previously stated that the rapper "did not know what was going on" during his set at the Astroworld festival and that the message "never got to Travis." Travis' crew never received it. He's up there trying to perform; he has no way of knowing what's happening on below, particularly on a mass scale."

"Truly, Travis didn't realise the full impact of anything until the next morning. "He had no idea what was going on," he admitted on Good Morning America. "Understand that when he's up onstage and flash pods are going off all around him, and he has an ear-monitor blasting music and his own voice through it, he can't hear or see anything."

Scott has invited families of individuals who were affected by the Astroworld disaster to contact him via email since the catastrophe. "He is heartbroken by the situation and desperately desires to convey his condolences and provide assistance to them as quickly as possible," his team said in a statement. "However, he wants to be respectful of each family's wishes on how they'd best like to be connected."

Scott has teamed with counselling app BetterHelp to provide online treatment for people in need, following the news that he will pay for the funeral fees of victims of the Astroworld event.

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