Hundreds injured as platform falls into sea

[Still Waters]

More than 300 people have been injured, nine of them seriously, after a wooden platform collapsed during a music festival in Vigo in north-west Spain.

The incident happened close to midnight as the Mallorcan rapper Rels B was about to begin his performance at O Marisquiño festival. Most of the injuries were fractures and head wounds as festivalgoers fell several feet to the ground. Some fell into the sea.

Alicia Ulloa, 19, who was at the festival, told the website El Confidencial: “Suddenly everyone disappeared and everyone was trampling on everyone else as they tried to escape.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/13/spain-vigo-music-festival-platform-collapse-hundreds-injured

[+susieice]

What a terrible experience for all those people! Sounds like the weight of a lot of people was too much for an older platform to handle and it collapsed. Good to hear the ones that were seriously injured are non-life threatening injuries. This could have been a lot worse. Sending healing thoughts to all involved. 

[aztek]

a miracle no one was killed