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Title: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air 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
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 07, 2011, 01:25:09 PM
that's terrible. Hopefully nobody is seriously hurt or worse.
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on July 07, 2011, 01:27:37 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/07/fc-twente-stadium
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Lambert and Payne 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
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Concrete John on July 07, 2011, 01:35:18 PM
Lets hope it's not a major catastrophy and nobody has lost their lives. 
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air 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.
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: pablopicasso_10 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...
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: sg on July 07, 2011, 03:01:12 PM
Not good at all, hopefully the people trapped get out unharmed.
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Mark H 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
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: Rick_avfc on July 07, 2011, 03:21:13 PM
This is really bad.  Lets hope theres no more casualties.
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: darren woolley 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.
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: itbrvilla on July 07, 2011, 04:37:40 PM
More pics here.  I confirmed dead so far.  Apparently they were working on the roof so were walking on top of it when it collapsed. (http://www.nusport.nl/eredivisie/2559238/dode-bij-stadiondrama-fc-twente.html)
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: The Left Side on July 07, 2011, 07:16:45 PM
When was the stand built?
Title: Re: o% Villa-FC Twente stadium collapse.
Post by: NeilH 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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