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Eminem Fans Injured in Concert Stampede

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It looks like this Eminem Show got a little too rowdy.

About 30 people were hurt--one critically--Saturday when excited fans in the mosh pit began rushing the stage during the hip-hopster's concert at Washington D.C.'s RFK Stadium, the Washington Times reports.

District of Columbia Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter said most of the injured suffered only minor scrapes, cuts and bruises in the melee. But one 20-year-old man had a heart attack and was successfully resuscitated by paramedics on the scene.

"There certainly was a heightened sense of excitement when he came on," Mr. Etter told the Times. "There was a rush to the stage, and that's when the injuries occurred. There were potential broken bones and strained limbs and backs, but nothing I would characterize as being life-threatening other than the individual who went into cardiac arrest."

All of the injured were taken to nearby local hospitals for treatment, including the heart-attack victim, who was listed in critical condition as of Sunday. He was originally found having trouble breathing near a five-foot-high barrier a few feet in front of the stage.

Concertgoers reported people literally trampling one another and nearly suffocating as the jam-packed crowd started going out of control when Eminem took the stage at 8 p.m. The rapper was just one of the headlining acts of the HFStival--the 12th annual two-day music party put together by local radio station WHFS, which traditionally kicks off the summer and attracts about 60,000 people.

"There were fights and a lot of pushing and shoving," 17-year-old Brent Turner of Damascus, Maryland, told the Times.

The concert was halted for 10 minutes while emergency medical personnel tended to the victims and an announcer urged the audience in the first 20 rows to step back from the stage.

After a 30-minute break, the rapper went on with the show.

In what marked his first live gig in almost two years, Slim Shady debuted material from his controversial new third album, The Eminem Show, which hit record stores Sunday, after his record company moved up the release date by several weeks to combat bootleggers cutting into sales.

The album, which is expected to top the album charts, has spawned a hit single, "Without Me," which has already stormed Billboard's Hot 100 and was the week's biggest gainer in terms of airplay.

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