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Slovakia's largest music pageant, Pohoda Competition, has been cancelled after a storm blew over a tent, injuring 12 folks.
As a result of safety issues, pageant organizers introduced right this moment that the pageant, which is being held at Trenčín Airport, might be shortened and guests might be required to go away in particular evacuation buses.
The pageant line-up included James Blake, Skepta, Royal Blood, Pendulum, Noname, Arlo Parks and Black Pumas.
Morcheeba and Royal Blood's scheduled performances for Friday night time have been cancelled after a storm raged via the venue, knocking over a tent.
In line with the Slovak Spectator, 12 of the 30,000 guests have been injured when one of many massive tents collapsed on the festival-goers. Eight of them have been taken to hospitals in Trenčín and Považská Bystrica with minor accidents to their heads and arms.
In line with the outlet, an estimated “dozens” of individuals have been contained in the tent when it collapsed, ready for the music to begin. They have been warned to not stand close to the tent poles because of the approaching storm, and have been knowledgeable that the pageant was suspended.
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Many reportedly fled the pageant after the storm earlier than an official cancellation announcement was made. At 8pm on Friday night time, organisers introduced that the pageant was being suspended because of the storms.
Immediately they printed a press release on their web site saying that the pageant was cancelled.
“After cautious consideration of the time constraints for inspecting the security of the pageant buildings, we’ve got determined that we should cancel Pohoda 2024,” the pageant's web site mentioned.
'Primarily based on the out there info, the inspection of all buildings couldn’t be accomplished inside 24 hours, making it unattainable to proceed the pageant program.
'The security of our visitors is our precedence and we subsequently belief that our determination, which we’ve got taken with nice disappointment, might be understood by everybody.
'We count on to have the ability to present extra info quickly concerning the excessive climate that affected our pageant and the implications this had for the pageant buildings.
'Everybody with tents on the campsite can keep in a single day on the pageant till 12:00 tomorrow. The centre of the situation stays closed. We’ll present a fundamental provide of drinks and meals on the campsite.
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'The pageant automobile park and caravan storage will stay open till 4 p.m.'
The pageant adopted up the announcement with extra details about the buses, which had “adequate capability” to move anybody who needed to go away the pageant.
Organizers additionally mentioned they despatched “vans to the tent camps” with “water and pastries” for festival-goers.
Metro.co.uk has contacted the organisers of the Pohoda Competition for remark.
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