TRENCIN, Slovenia (CelebrityAccess) — Pohoda, an open-air music pageant held within the Metropolis of Trencin in Western Slovenia, was canceled on Friday after thunderstorms and excessive winds knocked over a pageant tent and broken one of many pageant’s levels, leaving a number of folks with accidents.
The estival’s chief doctor Jaroslav Vidan instructed the Slovanian information website The Spectator, that a minimum of 29 folks sustained accidents through the climate occasion, largely minor accidents, although two of the victims suffered extra severe accidents together with fractures of the lumbar backbone and pelvis, based on info supplied by Slovakia’s emergency medical companies on Saturday morning.
In response to The Spectator, dozens of festival-goers have been sheltering from the inclement climate inside the tent when it collapsed.
Following the incident on Friday, many followers selected to go away the occasion, creating visitors congestion within the space. On Saturday, pageant organizers introduced the cancellation of the rest of this system, citing an incapability to make sure the protection of the remaining pageant constructions in a well timed vogue.
Primarily based on the accessible info, inspecting all of the constructions couldn’t be accomplished in lower than 24 hours, which makes it unimaginable to proceed with the pageant programme.
The security of our friends is our precedence, and due to this fact we imagine that our resolution, made with nice remorse, shall be understood by everybody.
We anticipate to have the ability to present info shortly concerning the excessive climate that affected our pageant and the results it had on the pageant constructions.
All these with tents within the tenting space could keep in a single day on the pageant till 12:00 midday tomorrow. The centre of the venue will stay closed. We are going to guarantee a primary provide of drinks and meals within the tenting areas.
The long-running pageant featured a 2024 lineup that included Arlo Parks, Skepta, and James Blake. Performances by Morcheeba and Royal Blood, each scheduled for Friday night time, have been impacted by the cancellation.
