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Many hurt as stage collapses at New Year bash
Staff Reporter
— Photo: S.S. Kumar
In troubled waters: People being rescued after a wooden stage erected on a swimming pool of a city hotel collapsed on New Year eve.
CHENNAI: As a group of persons partying at a city hotel on Radhakrishnan Salai got ready to wish each other for New Year at midnight, hundreds of people, dancing on a wooden stage erected above the hotel’s swimming pool, fell into the pool, when the stage collapsed at about 11.20 p.m. on Monday. Many of them were injured.
Fire and Rescue Services personnel arrived at the spot at 12.10 a.m. amidst chaos. A few people were reported missing.
Police said there were no casualties till 12.15 a.m. and were trying to get the broken wooden planks in the pool cleared to check if anyone was caught in the pool.
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