2 concert fans dead:

Lat/Am

Two people were killed and a dozen were injured on Saturday night when spectators rushed to the stage at an over-packed outdoor rock concert in eastern Argentina.

The deadly crush of fans was blamed on lack of crowd control at the concert of popular performer Indio Solari in the town of Olavarria, in Buenos Aires province.

Solari halted his performance several times, calling from the stage for security to help people who were stuck in the stampede and appeared to be fainting.

Some 350,000 fans showed up for the concert, Mayor Ezequiel Galli told a news conference. He said the event had been organized to handle less than half that number, and that it would be up to the justice system to decide who is to blame for the disaster.

“What happened was total chaos,” he said. “It just got away from us.” “No one imagined that this many people would show up,” he added, saying that by mid-afternoon some 100,000 vehicles, or one for every city resident, had arrived for the show. (RTRS) it later revised the toll down. It had also said several people were missing; it was not clear if they had been found. (AP)

Honduran prez claims victory:

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Sunday claimed victory in his party’s primary to be the candidate in November’s presidential election.

With just 9.6 percent of the votes counted, the country’s electoral tribunal said Hernandez, 48, had won 92.9 percent of the votes so far, to be the conservative National Party candidate, with the rest going to his rival Roberto Castillo.

Castillo conceded defeat on Sunday after the preliminary results were announced, saying he would support the re-election of Hernandez, a highly controversial issue in Honduras.

Former university rector Luis Zelaya was ahead in the vote to be the opposition Liberal Party candidate with 56.54 percent of the vote with 12.3 percent of the total counted, followed by former Central Bank President Gabriela Nunez.

The leftist Liberal Party, led by former president Manuel Zelaya, was on course to choose his wife Xiomara Castro as its candidate, who had 94.7 percent of the votes with 12.1 percent counted. (RTRS)

Haiti bus accident toll 38:

At least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured in northern Haiti late on Saturday after a bus drove into a parade of pedestrians while fleeing from an accident, civil protection authorities said on Sunday.

The bus, which was traveling from Cap Haitien to the capital Port-au-Prince, initially hit two people in a town outside Gonaives in northern Haiti, killing one, said Joseph Faustin, civil protection head in the Artibonite department. The bus driver then fled and crashed into three “rara” parades in Mapou, about 5 km (3 miles) away, Faustin said. (RTRS)