Two killed, 40 injured after stage collapses during Belgian music festival
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Two killed, 40 injured after stage collapses during Belgian music festival
At least two people have been killed and 40 injured after a stage collapsed during a heavy storm at a music festival in Belgium.
8:21PM BST 18 Aug 2011
The Telegraph UK
The Chateau stage at Belgium's Pukkelpop festival, near the town of Hasselt, was apparently destroyed when bad weather caused trees to fall over. A second stage collapsed but it is not thought to have fallen on any concertgoers. Some giant screens also fell down.
There were varying reports of casualties, but the mayor of Hasselt said two were killed and 40 injured.
Cullen Omori, of the band Smith Westerns, who was on the stage at the time, tweeted: "Stage collapsed max almost got crushed by the trees. I hope pukkelpop has insurance bc all our ---- is broke." He later tweeted: "Apologise to anyone who mistook tweet. Wrote directly after running offstage. Just found out the extent of damage. All of prays go out."
Jared Leto, the actor and frontman of the US band Thirty Seconds to Mars, wrote on his own microblogging site: "Four stages down – still raining + thunder if you are here please be safe.
"Serious injuries att he festival. More bad weather poses heading this way. Please take care and caution."
Pukkelpop, which started on Thursday is an annual three-day event with headlining acts this year including the Foo Fighters and Eminem. Reports say some 60,000 people are attending the event. In 2009 it attracted some 180,000 people over the course of three days. It has been running since 1985.
Last year, the festival attracted controversy when the lead singer of the British electropop group Ou Est Le Swimming Pool died. Charles Haddon, 22, leapt to his death from a telecommunications mast being the main stage. Another musician, 60-year-old Michael Been, the former frontman of the US band the Call died after suffering a heart attack.
The stage collapse is the second such fatal incident in less than a week. On Sunday, at least five people were killed and more than 40 injured when a sudden storm caused a concert stage to collapse in during the Indiana State Fair in the US.
Two killed, 40 injured after stage collapses during Belgian music festival
At least two people have been killed and 40 injured after a stage collapsed during a heavy storm at a music festival in Belgium.
8:21PM BST 18 Aug 2011
The Telegraph UK
The Chateau stage at Belgium's Pukkelpop festival, near the town of Hasselt, was apparently destroyed when bad weather caused trees to fall over. A second stage collapsed but it is not thought to have fallen on any concertgoers. Some giant screens also fell down.
There were varying reports of casualties, but the mayor of Hasselt said two were killed and 40 injured.
Cullen Omori, of the band Smith Westerns, who was on the stage at the time, tweeted: "Stage collapsed max almost got crushed by the trees. I hope pukkelpop has insurance bc all our ---- is broke." He later tweeted: "Apologise to anyone who mistook tweet. Wrote directly after running offstage. Just found out the extent of damage. All of prays go out."
Jared Leto, the actor and frontman of the US band Thirty Seconds to Mars, wrote on his own microblogging site: "Four stages down – still raining + thunder if you are here please be safe.
"Serious injuries att he festival. More bad weather poses heading this way. Please take care and caution."
Pukkelpop, which started on Thursday is an annual three-day event with headlining acts this year including the Foo Fighters and Eminem. Reports say some 60,000 people are attending the event. In 2009 it attracted some 180,000 people over the course of three days. It has been running since 1985.
Last year, the festival attracted controversy when the lead singer of the British electropop group Ou Est Le Swimming Pool died. Charles Haddon, 22, leapt to his death from a telecommunications mast being the main stage. Another musician, 60-year-old Michael Been, the former frontman of the US band the Call died after suffering a heart attack.
The stage collapse is the second such fatal incident in less than a week. On Sunday, at least five people were killed and more than 40 injured when a sudden storm caused a concert stage to collapse in during the Indiana State Fair in the US.
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