MADRID—Hundreds of people were hurt, five seriously, when a wooden platform collapsed at a seaside music festival in northwestern Spain on Sunday night, state television RTVE reported.
There were no reports of any fatalities from the incident which broadcaster Radio Galega said left 266 people injured at the O Marisquino festival in Vigo, a town in the Galicia region.
Vigo’s mayor Abel Caballero said the platform that collapsed just before midnight was 30 meters long and 10 meters wide.
“There were loads, I mean loads of people” on the boardwalk, one witness told RTVE.
“People fell on me. I had trouble getting out. I was trying to get out and skidded, my foot got stuck, in the water. I got it out. A boy gave me his hand and I got out. I felt paralysed and [then] I left. There was a girl with blood on her head,” Aitana Alonso said to local newspaper Faro De Vigo.
It is not clear what caused the platform to collapse.
By Isla Binnie
Jane Gray contributed to this report
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