{"id":15411,"date":"2011-08-19T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15411"},"modified":"2011-08-19T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:40:37","slug":"pukkelpop-festival-tragedy-in-hasselt-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/19\/pukkelpop-festival-tragedy-in-hasselt-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Pukkelpop festival tragedy in Hasselt, Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Associated Press<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

HASSELT, Belgium (AP) — The death toll from a fierce thunderstorm that mangled tents and downed trees and scaffolding at an open-air music festival in Belgium has risen to five, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

Hasselt Mayor Hilde Claes said that two more people died overnight. About 140 were injured in the storm, 10 of them seriously, she said.<\/p>\n

All the dead were Belgians, Claes said.<\/p>\n

Organizers canceled the annual Pukkelpop festival near Hasselt, 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Brussels. Buses and trains were pressed into service to transfer the 60,000 festival goers home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the same Pukkelpop festival<\/a> that I went to in 2009. \u00a0My sincere condolences to the friends and families of the victims.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Associated Press reports: HASSELT, Belgium (AP) — The death toll from a fierce thunderstorm that mangled tents and downed trees and scaffolding at an open-air music festival in Belgium has risen to five, officials said Friday. Hasselt Mayor Hilde Claes said that two more people died overnight. About 140 were injured in the storm, 10 … Continue reading Pukkelpop festival tragedy in Hasselt, Belgium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[2360,1338,841,2358,525],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music","tag-belgium","tag-disasters","tag-nature","tag-pukkelpop","tag-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t