"These were the terrifying scenes as hundreds of people ran for their lives at a beer festival after someone shouted 'ISIS' for a joke.
More than 40 people were injured in the stampede at the Beer Fest in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina after apparently a gun was fired and many wrongly thought it was a terror attack.
Two people were seriously injured in the stampede, and there were also unconfirmed reports in local media that a boy aged 15 had been shot.
It is not uncommon for people in Kosovo to own a gun, so a weapon may have been fired in the panic.
According to some estimates, about 20 percent of the country owns a gun.
In a video of the stampede, people can be seen pushing each other after the panic broke out.
In one case, a man can be seen treading on another man as he flees.
People were hiding in alleys and smashing their way into buildings to look for a place to hide..."
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