News: Horror on the Dance Floor in Tenerife, Spain
Photo Credits: Screengrab from Bomberos de Tenerife via BBC News
Forty clubbers were said to have been injured when the dance floor of a popular gay bar called Butterfly Disco Club located in Playa de la Américas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain collapsed. BBC News reported that 22 were rescued while 18 people “had made their own way to hospitals.” The incident occurred at around 2:30am Sunday, local time. It is said that two were seriously injured, “suffering fractures to the femur, or thigh bone” while the others are “believed to have suffered moderate to light injuries.” According to BBC News, the regional government was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying, “After the floor collapsed, the people who were inside fell to the basement from the height of approximately one floor.”
Roof collapse at Club in tenerife #tenerife pic.twitter.com/uBC9EcDpzY
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The victims, aged between 20 and 60, reportedly came from various countries such as “Spain, France, the UK, Belgium, and Romania” and two others whose nationalities remained unconfirmed. They suffered from broken ankles, leg and hip fractures as well as cuts and bruises. PinkNews quoted a firefighter spokesman who said six firefighting teams were sent to “carry out inspection and debris removal tasks to rule out whether people were trapped inside.” The teams confirmed that the “floor of about four meters in length had collapsed.”
I am very sorry that multiple people were injured, presumably due to poor design or maintenance of a club, but this does not appear to involve terrorism and it appears there were no fatalities. We have so many real horrors in our world, such as Orlando and Las Vegas, applying horror to this occurrence does not seem right.