One particular person was killed and dozens injured when excessive winds prompted a part of the primary stage to break down at a dance music pageant close to the Spanish metropolis of Valencia within the early hours of Saturday, regional emergency providers stated.
Other infrastructure was additionally broken when gusts battered the Medusa Festival, an enormous digital music pageant held over six days within the east coast city of Cullera, south of Valencia.
The pageant, the place French DJ David Guetta was resulting from play on Saturday, had DJs scheduled to play all through the night time on Friday throughout 5 levels.
Of the injured, three suffered severe trauma accidents and 14 had extra minor accidents, regional emergency providers tweeted. Regional well being authorities stated later that 40 folks had been attended to.
“We are completely devastated and saddened at what happened this morning,” organisers stated in a press release on the pageant’s Facebook web page.
They stated “extraordinary” climate situations had prompted injury to numerous infrastructure on the pageant web site.
“At around four in the morning unexpected and violent strong winds destroyed certain areas of the festival, forcing management to make the immediate decision to vacate the concert area to guarantee the safety of attendees, workers and artists,” organisers stated.
The pageant was suspended in the interim, they stated.
DJ Miguel Serna was on the primary stage from 3am to 4am when the incident occurred.
“It was a tense few minutes, I’ve never experienced anything like it before,” he wrote in an Instagram story on Saturday.
“The tragedy happened just at the end of my session on the main stage, just below it, which was the most affected (area). It was a few moments of horror, I am still in shock.”
National broadcaster TVE confirmed pictures of robust gusts of wind battering towards folks’s tents in the midst of the night time.
“We are in a state of shock because we were 30 metres away (from the stage). It could have been me, it could have been anyone,” Jesus Carretero, who was on the pageant together with his brother, advised TVE.
National climate company AEMET stated there had been “strong gusts of wind and a sudden rise in temperatures” in the course of the night time, with gusts of 82 kph (51 mph) recorded at Alicante airport within the Valencia area.
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk