NINETEEN INJURED IN INCIDENT AT MIASS ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL
Baku, August 30 (AZERTAC). Nineteen victims who were attacked by around 80 hooligans during the "Tornado" rock music festival in Miass on Sunday have applied for medical assistance. A criminal case on charges of hooliganism has been opened, the Miass district Interior department told Itar -Tass.
The Prosecutor`s General department in the Urals Federal District has brought an investigation into the incident of mass beating during the concert under special control. The festival was held in the city of Miass on the Turgoyak lake shore in the Chelyabinsk region.
A group of around 80 men broke into the premises of the Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya recreation center, where the festival was held, at around 7. 45 pm local time Sunday. The intruders armed with sticks attacked the audiences at random and heavily beat them up. Onlookers said mass beating continued for around five minutes, and then all the intruders escaped from the scene in cars.
Seventeen out of 19 victims who asked for medical assistance received minor injuries. Two people who suffered a concussion were hospitalized in condition of medium seriousness. There is no threat to their life, Chief of the public relations department of the city administration Galina Kireyeva told Itar-Tass.
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