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One Direction kicked off their world tour last week in Colombia, and while their first show went off without a hitch, their second concert in Peru left 47 fans requiring medical attention.

At one point during the set the group stopped singing and Niall Horan warned the crowd to stop rushing the stage or else 1D would be forced to pull the plug. "If you don't want anyone to take us off the stage, make sure you stay back," he said, while Liam added, "Or we'll have to go - and we don't want to go." Thankfully it seems like most of the injuries sustained during the mini-stampede were minor, but this is still quite scary!

Just to give you an idea of what they were dealing with, Liam Payne tweeted the photo above from the band's hotel in Lima and wrote, "I will never understand, and you will never understand what this does to somebody ... why? no one could deserve this." And this was before their concert at the Estadio Nacional!

The head of Peru's volunteer fire service, Mario Cassareto told a Peruvian radio station that tents were used as emergency pop-up treatment stations and they were handling everything as best as they could.

"We treated 47 children with the first stages of asphyxia. Everything is under control. We have nothing to be ashamed of, we've handled the situation well," Cassareto said. "We put in place a second evacuation plan so that the younger fans were not affected. We're working with the police and the security companies [who were contracted for the show], 911 and VIP. It's under control. We are still treating those with symptoms of asphyxia that we pulled from the back. The ministry of health has set up tents."

Sounds like the fangirls really need to simmer down!