Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption A steel structure on the front to the venue collapsed in Saturday’s typhoon
a minimum of 14 Backstreet Boys lovers have been injured after a steel construction at an outside concert venue collapsed in a hurricane in the US state of Oklahoma.
Staff have been evacuating fans while rain and winds of 70-80mph (113-128 kph) knocked over the live performance entrance trusses, the venue said in an announcement.
All of the folks injured were taken to medical institution. have since been released.
In a tweet, the us band cancelled the display, pronouncing: “We never need to positioned our fans in harm’s means.”
The venue webhosting the concert, WinStar World Casino and Resort, mentioned in a press release that it had asked its consumers to hunt refuge from the hurricane at about 1700 native time (2200 GMT) on Saturday after lightning was spotted inside of four miles of the positioning.
a local reporter additionally tweeted photographs from the location:
