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Author Topic: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.  (Read 3920 times)

Online Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« on: July 07, 2011, 01:21:56 PM »
Sketchy details as only just happened.
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Part of a football stadium in the Netherlands has collapsed trapping people under the wreckage.

Part of the FC Twente football stadium caved in around midday, according to a police spokesman.

"People are trapped but we don't know how many," said Jan Lamberts.

Emergency services are at the stadium in the city of Enschede, which was reportedly undergoing renovation work during the off season.

Rescue workers are trying to free people trapped under the rubble.

A medical helicopter is also at the scene to treat the injured, said Dutch news agency ANP.

Pictures on local news websites show a large section of the roof has crashed on to a bank of red seats behind one of the goals.

The team, Dutch national champion in 2010, was believed to be training elsewhere at the time of the collapse.



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/people-trapped-football-stadium-collapses-114543385.html
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Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2011, 01:25:09 PM »
that's terrible. Hopefully nobody is seriously hurt or worse.
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Online Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2011, 01:27:37 PM »
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Offline Lambert and Payne

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2011, 01:31:54 PM »
Fingers crossed its cuts and bruises. Thoughts are with the victims and there families and this time of panic
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Offline Concrete John

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2011, 01:35:18 PM »
Lets hope it's not a major catastrophy and nobody has lost their lives. 
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Online Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2011, 01:37:50 PM »
Looking at the pictures it looks nasty for anybody underneath, the entire roof appears to have collapsed onto the stand below.
I would assume its a problem related to alterations/construction being carried out at the time because something like that happening on a match day does not bear thinking about.
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Offline pablopicasso_10

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2011, 02:22:09 PM »
that is awful...

hopefully any injuries sustained will be superficial...

thoughts go out to family and friends of those trapped...
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Offline sg

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2011, 03:01:12 PM »
Not good at all, hopefully the people trapped get out unharmed.
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Offline Mark H

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2011, 03:04:07 PM »
The guy in SSN said at least one dead unfortunatly - its the new roof they have been working on
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Offline Rick_avfc

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2011, 03:21:13 PM »
This is really bad.  Lets hope theres no more casualties.
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Offline darren woolley

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2011, 03:57:33 PM »
It's a bad thing to happen let's just hope there are no more people hurt.
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Online itbrvilla

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2011, 04:37:40 PM »
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Offline The Left Side

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2011, 07:16:45 PM »
When was the stand built?
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Offline NeilH

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Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2011, 08:43:05 PM »
They were busy adding an additional tier to the stand when one of the girders gave way.
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