BRASILIA, 28 Feb. At least 16 people have died from the fall of a power over a crowd who participated in an outdoor parade before the carnival celebrations in the Brazilian city of Bandeira do Sul, in southern eastern state of Minas Gerais, said Sunday night the military police. According to the Energy Company of Minas Gerais (Cemig), someone would have thrown a serpentine metallic against electrical cable that would match and would have fallen, reaching also to the 'power trio', a truck equipped with sound material that serves mobile stage for artists, a very common in the carnival celebrations.
Firefighters said there are dozens of injured people, who are being treated at several hospitals in the area. Meanwhile, the city has been temporarily without power because of the accident. Serpentine reached a medium-voltage cable of about 7,000 volts. Health Secretary Pocos de Caldas (in southern Minas Gerais), Jose Julio Balducci told the television station that the incident in G1 Bandeira do Sul is "a catastrophe." "There were many people in the electric trio and still do not know the exact number of deaths," he said.
A teacher who asked not to be identified and who lives near the place where the accident happened said that among those killed several teenagers. For his part, Daniel de Oliveira Castro, a young man of 25 who witnessed the events said to issue 'on line' of the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo" that was "a mess" because "some people were electrocuted a lot fell from the truck "and" at that time LCES were turned off.
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Firefighters said there are dozens of injured people, who are being treated at several hospitals in the area. Meanwhile, the city has been temporarily without power because of the accident. Serpentine reached a medium-voltage cable of about 7,000 volts. Health Secretary Pocos de Caldas (in southern Minas Gerais), Jose Julio Balducci told the television station that the incident in G1 Bandeira do Sul is "a catastrophe." "There were many people in the electric trio and still do not know the exact number of deaths," he said.
A teacher who asked not to be identified and who lives near the place where the accident happened said that among those killed several teenagers. For his part, Daniel de Oliveira Castro, a young man of 25 who witnessed the events said to issue 'on line' of the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo" that was "a mess" because "some people were electrocuted a lot fell from the truck "and" at that time LCES were turned off.
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