Guest Mee-9 Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 Police in Enschede have confirmed that part of a stand has collapsed at FC Twente's De Grolsch Veste stadium and that officers are working to free people trapped underneath.The roof is reported to have collapsed after two support beams buckled, although the reason why this happened is not yet known. Emergency services have arrived to deal with the casualties, with at least five people reportedly injured – and the stadium has been evacuated. "We do not have many details at the moment, the only thing we can say is that we have quite a big situation. Part of the tribune has collapsed, so we have some people beneath it and we have got some people [police officers] there at the moment. "We can't say any more about what is going on because we have had no contact from our people from our station who are there at the moment." The spokesman could not comment on whether anyone was killed or injured. The roof's partial collapse probably was related to construction work at the stadium, he added. The work was being carried out as part of the club's development of their stadium to a 32,000-seat arena. The capacity was just 13,500 when the Enschede side moved to the venue in 1998. The stadium is situated on the outskirts of Enschede in the east of the Netherlands, close to the German border. FC Twente, who finished second in the Eredivisie last season and won the Dutch Cup, were until 2010 managed by the former England manager, Steve McClaren. The club's chairman Joop Munsterman is thought to have left the team's pre-season training camp in Zeeland and is returning to Enschede, while the coach, Co Adriaanse, has cancelled all press activity until further notice. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/07/fc-twente-stadium
MikeyT Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 Shit. Hope people are going to be ok. You don't expect to hear that sort of thing.
I am Rod Hull Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 Sky showed a couple of pics.. No reports on how bad it is yet..
Darkon84 Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 Hope they are all alright, still no news about the amount of injured etc. This is a picture that was posted with the Yahoo story on it, but we all know how crap Yahoo reporting can be
JadeFalcon Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 it beats the BBC's coverage who have absolutely nothing on this story on their site, but they also seem to think that twats queuing for harry ****ing potter is BREAKING NEWS the BBC piss me off with their shitty news coverage -=edit=- just managed to find it stuffed under their World news / europe section, yet rain pissing down on some saps in london waiting for a film is front page news gahhh cnutbuckets -= edit and rant over=-
millzi Posted 9 July 2011 Posted 9 July 2011 That is awful, imagine had that been just a few weeks ago then that could have been 1,000's injured if not dead, had they been playing at home.
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