I was hoping we’d have more information by now, but something to remember with this story is that it happened in one of the most media-controlled countries on Earth…
A full choir was rehearsing on Saturday when that full choir free-fell into the space under the stage in a gruesome-looking stage collapse. Honestly, we’ll probably not know the source of this accident, the investigation of this accident, or the condition of the people in this accident. Furthermore, another reality to keep in mind is that there’s nothing we can do about any of that. Here’s hoping that we hear something regarding the condition of the people injured in this pretty scary event:
Another view of the incident:
One has to wonder about how that went down. At once, the entire Policeman’s choir plunged into the deck:
We sincerely do hope everyone is ok… but I have very little hopes of getting much more true information out of this situation. Stay tuned.
From China Insider:
A video of the accident, which was widely circulated on social media on Monday, shows the heavily loaded stage collapsing suddenly and sending choir members tumbling amid screams from the audience and choir.
In the video, three choir members were seen rushing to the stage after singing had already started. Seconds later, after one of the three latecomers had taken their place, the stage collapsed. A crash was heard when the stage hit the ground.
All 80 choir members were from a local police force, state media said.
The choir was rehearsing for a singing contest to mark Labour Day under the theme of “Chinese Dream” – a phrase coined by President Xi Jinping and later promoted by governments of all levels around China.
In October last year, 16 music fans plunged to their deaths when a ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed during an outdoor pop concert in South Korea.
The victims fell 20 metres into an underground parking area when the grate gave way while they were watching girl band 4Minute. At least a dozen others were injured.
In the United States late last month dozens of people were injured when a stage collapsed during a high school rock performance in the state of Indiana, US media reported.
From the CCTV+ news site:
Eight singers were injured when a lifting stage of a theater in southwest China’s Guizhou province suddenly dropped to the ground level on Saturday afternoon.
The accident occurred when some 80 singers were rehearsing on the lifting stage in the grand theater of Bijie city around 15:00. All the singers were seen suddenly descending with the falling stage and disappearing from sight except for the conductor.
Medical workers rushed to help, and the accident caused eight injuries, two of them seriously.
The cause of the stage failure is being investigated.
Stay tuned, anything we find we will update at the top.
