Parts of the roof at Sentrum Scene in Oslo collapsed – at least 15 people are injured – TV 2

Plasters from the ceiling fell down toward the crowd during a concert for 1,800 BI students at Sentrum Scene in Oslo on Sunday around 17:30 hours.

15 people were injured.

– I found it very traumatic. He beside me got something right in mind, it seemed like a tough experience. It’s not like that’s going to happen at an event. I was lucky, says Herman Lauritsen, to TV 2

15 people were injured when takbitene fell. None of them was seriously injured.

One of the injured, a woman of 21 years, was taken to Ullevål, the fourteen others were sent to the emergency room for treatment.

The fire department says that there was a two to three centimeters thick layer of plaster that fell between eight and ten meters.

Police investigations indicate that an engine bumped into murtaket at center stage, and that this made takbiter fell during a concert, newspaper VG reports.

According to police, the motor that raises and lowers the lighting rig above the stage as his murtaket Sunday.

– We have had crime technicians at the scene. There are two hoists that lift rigged, which in turn is attached to the ceiling with wires. It looks like the one engine hit the roof, says Øyvind Torgersen, duty manager at the crime guard by police in Oslo VG.

There were 1,800 people in attendance at the concert with DJ Steve Aoki, who was a closed event for BI students in connection with the mentor week for new students, police said.

– When Steve Aoki started pointing backwards and waving as I saw that parts of the roof had fallen down and that there was plaster or concrete strewn across the floor. First, people thought it was a fight that had taken place there, since there was blood in the face of some, but it was obviously much worse, says Lars Linder to TV2.

All were evacuated and police sealed off area outside.

– it was panic, people did not understand what happened, tell someone who was on the spot to TV 2.

it was the American DJ one Steve Aoki raised the alarm.

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– I stood on stage when I saw that parts of the ceiling began to race down the audience. I raised the alarm immediately to scene guards who responded sporenstreks says Aoki TV 2.