Five people have died at the Indiana State Fair after a gust of wind collapsed a massive stage.
A storm came in just before country act Sugarland were to play at the Indiana State Fair, bringing down the huge rigging of the main stage on Saturday.
Just before 9pm the lighting rig and canopy of the stage pitched forward into the crowd, killing four immediately and injuring over 40.
Indiana police confirmed that a fifth person, a stagehand, died in an Indianapolis hospital.
Crowd members rushed to help the injured following the collapse, which also brought down crew members positioned up in the lighting rig.
Right before the crash, there was an announcement that the concert might have to be postponed due to the incoming thunderstorm and some crowd members were already moving towards shelter as the structure collapsed.
Country duo Sugarland were preparing to that the stage but their tour manager was delaying their show due to the incoming storm front.
The band’s manager Gail Gellman told CNN “And if she hadn’t held, everybody would have been on the stage. But obviously it’s devastation regardless. ... It’s just overwhelming for us.”
