Hong Kong authorities will investigate why a large, heavy video screen fell from the ceiling during a concert by a popular boy band at a government-run venue, injuring two dancers, officials said on Friday. responsible.
The accident happened during a Thursday night performance of Mirror, a 12-member group in China whose popularity has surged during the coronavirus pandemic. In video footage from the concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum, audience members scream after the screen lands directly on a dancer, apparently hitting him in the neck.
The South China Morning Post newspaper later reported that one of the two dancers suffered neck injuries and was in intensive care. He said the other was in stable condition.
Hong Kong authorities said in a brief statement on Friday that the Department of Recreation and Cultural Services, which operates the site, had been instructed to investigate the cause of the accident in coordination with officials from the Department of Labor and other agencies.
The statement also said the government had contacted the concert organizers on Wednesday – a day before the accident – about “incidents on stage in recent days”. He did not specify.
John Lee, chief executive of Hong Kong, said in a separate statement that he had asked the Department of Leisure Services and the Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism to “review the safety requirements of performance activities similar”.
“I am shocked by the incident,” Mr Lee said. “I express my sympathy to those who were injured and hope they recover soon.”
On Tuesday, Mirror member Frankie Chan Sui-fai fell off the stage at the Hong Kong Coliseum on the second day of the band’s planned 12-day concert series, the South China Morning Post reported. He fell about a meter and was not seriously injured, according to the report.
Makerville, the concert organizer, apologized for the accident in an Instagram post early Friday, adding that the remaining Mirror concerts at the venue would be cancelled.
The Colosseum opened in 1983, when Hong Kong was still a British territory, and can accommodate around 12,500 people, according to the Department of Recreation and Cultural Services.
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