A person in his 40s has died after falling at an Oasis live performance at London’s Wembley stadium, police stated Sunday.
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, who introduced the long-lasting Britpop band again collectively for a blockbuster world tour this 12 months, instructed the BBC they have been “shocked and saddened” by the fan’s dying on the Saturday night gig.
In keeping with a spokesperson for the London Metropolitan Police, officers and medics have been known as to the scene after 10:00 pm following “stories that an individual had been injured” on the packed stadium.
“A person — aged in his 40s — was discovered with accidents per a fall. He was sadly pronounced lifeless on the scene,” the spokesperson stated, urging any witnesses to come back ahead.
“Our ideas exit to his household,” a spokesperson for Wembley stated, whereas including that “tonight’s Oasis live performance will go forward as deliberate.”
Police stated the stadium was busy they usually “imagine it’s seemingly various individuals witnessed the incident, or might knowingly or unknowingly have caught it on cell phone video footage,” the BBC reported.
Wembley Stadium stated in an announcement that medics, police and the London Ambulance service had attended to the injured man, the BBC reported.
“Regardless of their efforts, the fan very sadly died. Our ideas exit to his household, who’ve been knowledgeable and are being supported by specifically educated law enforcement officials,” the stadium stated.
Sunday’s gig was Oasis’s final London date of the band’s 41-gig reunion world tour after 16 years of estrangement between the famously unstable Gallaghers.
The tour has bought round 900,000 tickets, with the group heading to Edinburgh subsequent earlier than its worldwide leg takes them to the USA, Japan, Australia and Brazil.
The band will subsequent seem in Edinburgh for 3 gigs on 8, 9 and 12 August after which take their tour to Eire, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico earlier than returning to Wembley on 27 and 28 September, in response to the BBC.
