{"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_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},"_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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12704,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/pukkelpop-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":15411,"position":0},"title":"Pukkelpop 2010","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If there is one place to be on August 19, 20, and 21st this year, it's Pukkelpop 2010. \u00a0Pukkelpop is the largest alternative music festival in Europe, with an amazing list of bands coming to perform this year and without tens of thousands of fans gathering from the whole world.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pukkelpop.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11928,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/14\/day-in-brief\/","url_meta":{"origin":15411,"position":1},"title":"Day in brief","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Uploading pictures from Munich, Germany trip. 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