The Pohoda pageant ended prematurely after a storm left 15 injured

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Up to date 7/13/2024 1:30 p.m

The organizers of the Slovak music pageant Pohoda prematurely ended this 12 months’s version after Friday’s robust storm. They introduced it on Saturday night time. The robust wind accompanying the storm blew down one of many massive tents and broken one other. A complete of 15 individuals had been injured.

In line with the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, three Czechs are additionally among the many injured. “After cautious consideration of the time choices for checking the security of the pageant buildings, we determined that now we have to finish Pohoda 2024,” they acknowledged organizers. In line with them, the evaluation can take as much as 24 hours, making it inconceivable for them to proceed with this system. The pageant began on Thursday and was initially alleged to final till Saturday.

“On the spot, the rescuers handled 15 principally evenly injured individuals and subsequently transferred 14 of them to hospitals in Trenčín and Považská Bystrica. They had been principally head accidents and bruises of the higher and decrease limbs.” knowledgeable at present the Emergency Medical Providers Operations Heart. “Two ladies aged 20 and 24 suffered severe accidents,” the middle added.

“In line with our newest data, there are additionally three Czechs among the many injured on the Pohoda pageant. They suffered minor accidents and had been handled in a hospital in Trenčín, hospitalization was not essential. None of them sought assist from the embassy,” stated Daniel Drake, spokesman for the Czech Ministry of Overseas Affairs.

A robust storm that swept throughout the west of Slovakia introduced down the tent of the Slovenská spořitelna, the place, based on witnesses, tens to lots of of contributors had been on the time, he wrote actuality.sk server. Paramedics and firefighters intervened on the spot, looking for individuals beneath the tarpaulin with a canine and a thermal digicam.

It began raining round 9:30 precisely because the organizers had predicted. It was actually quick. A couple of soaked individuals additionally hid in our Airstream, and FYP t-shirts had been sufficient for them. A neighborhood state of emergency has been declared on the web site. Our staff is OK. We hope everyone seems to be OK.🙏 pic.twitter.com/bRjdodoYsp

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In line with the server aktuality.sk, the Slovak police initiated a prison prosecution because of the collapse of the tent on suspicion of public endangerment. Minister of the Inside Matúš Šutaj Eštok welcomed the organizers’ choice to cancel the Pohoda pageant. Nonetheless, based on him, it is very important discover out whether or not this step ought to have come earlier.

The music pageant in Trenčín, which this 12 months introduced performers and bands akin to James Blake, Morcheeba, Black Pumas or Descartes and Kant, in addition to native singers Jana Kirschner and Richard Müller, has a capability of round 30,000 guests. An identical accident occurred in Pohoda already in 2009, when one of many tents additionally fell as a consequence of robust wind. The accident left two individuals useless and several other dozen injured.