Vivid needs better crowd management, says Chris Minns after bottlenecks cause ‘near-miss incident’

Crowds attending drone show at Sydney’s winter light festival feared crowd crush and were left feeling trapped and panicked

The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has conceded organisers need to “do better” after the crowd at Vivid’s drone show were left feeling trapped and panicked, with one expert describing it as a “near-miss incident”.

The first drone show as part of Sydney’s annual winter light festival drew enormous crowds to Circular Quay, where bottlenecks at the exits left thousands of people trapped and fearing a crowd crush on Saturday night.

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