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A second woman has died after being injured in a crush at Asake\u2019s concert at Brixton Academy.<\/p>\n
In the wee hours of December 19, 2022, 23-year-old Gabrielle Hutchinson passed away in the hospital.<\/p>\n
Hutchinson was one of the hired security personnel for the occasion that evening.<\/p>\n
The first victim was a woman, Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, who passed away from her wounds received at the performance. Dec. 17, early on a Saturday, she passed away.<\/p>\n
A third woman, age 21, is still in the hospital and is in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The three women were all in the building\u2019s lobby in south London when the crush gravely injured them, according to the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n
Eight people were taken to hospital with injuries following the incident on Thursday night, Dec. 15.<\/p>\n
Police said they were called to reports of a \u201clarge number of people attempting to force entry to the venue\u201d, where Afrobeat artist Asake was performing.<\/p>\n
The Nigerian musician was forced to abandon the gig after performing three songs and released a statement saying his \u201cheart is with those who were injured\u201d.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Colin Wingrove said: \u201cIt is devastating news that a second person has lost their life following the events on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish to express my heartfelt condolences to Gabrielle\u2019s family at this unimaginably difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca Ikumelo: Family mourns mother of two, killed at Asake\u2019s London concert<\/strong><\/p>\n Rebecca Ikumelo, a 33-year-old lady who died after being crushed at Asake\u2019s London concert has been identified as a single mother of 2 boys.<\/p>\n Her most recent video, which was published four days ago on her social media account, depicts her speaking with her autistic son.<\/p>\n Kemi FIlani gathered that Rebecca Ikumelo died from the injuries she sustained during the\u00a0stampede at the concert organized by the singer Asake in Brixton O2 Academy on Thursday, December 15.<\/p>\n Late Ikumelo died in hospital on Saturday morning, December 17, after being critically injured in the stampede.<\/p>\n She is survived by two children. She was very popular on Tiktok with videos she shared about her journey in taking care of her autistic son.<\/p>\n The Metropolitan Police says\u00a0two other women, aged 21 and 23, are still in critical condition.<\/p>\n Tributes have since flooded in for Rebecca Ikumelo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A second woman has died after being injured in a crush at Asake\u2019s concert at Brixton Academy. In the wee hours of December 19, 2022, 23-year-old Gabrielle Hutchinson passed away in the hospital. Hutchinson was one of the hired security personnel for the occasion that evening. The first victim was a woman, Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}