Concert Goers console each other after the incident

by Barry Artiste | April 26, 2008 at 05:40 am | 113 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
Concert Goers console each other after the incident by Barry Artiste

No one was killed during a Christian Concert at a local Church in Abbotsford.

Apparently a Mosh Pit had formed with a 100 people in front of the stage when the floor collapsed sending concert goers 4 meters to the church basement.

Dozens injured as floor collapses at Christian rock concert in AbbotsfordBy Glenda Luymes and Erik Rolfsen, Vancouver ProvincePublished: Saturday, April 26, 2008

Stage scaffolding fell and knocked approximately 70 people throughthe floor and into the basement at a crowded Christian rock concert inan Abbotsford church on Friday night.

Thirty-two people were injured and treated at Central Heights Church on McCallum Roadby ambulance, police and fire personnel from several Fraser Valleycommunities. Twenty-two of them had to be taken by ambulance tohospital, said Const. Casey Vinet of the Abbotsford Police. Three wereseriously injured, although Vinet did not know their ages or conditions.

"This was a rock concert and it was attended mostly by youth," Vinet said.

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Dozens injured as floor collapses at Christian rock concert in Abbotsford

No one was killed during a Christian Concert at a local Church in Abbotsford.Apparently a Mosh Pit had formed with a 100 people in front of the stage jumping up and down in unision, when the floor collapsed sending...

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