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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

Safety review of Notting Hill Carnival demanded after police fear crowd crush will cause 'mass casualty event'

A review of crowd control at the Notting Hill Carnival has been demanded after police said they had to intervene on multiple occasions “to save life” at last year’s event.

The Met, which has consistently raised concerns about the possibility of “a mass casualty event” at carnival, revealed there were “100 spontaneous crowd incidents” that caused alarm at the 2024 event.

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