He said they were working with Live Nation and BB&T to install a temporary railing with a buffer zone before Saturday night’s concert. Snoop and Khalifa were immediately ushered off the stage by security.
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One concertgoer, Katie Colbridge, told NBC that Snoop and Khalifa had just got onto a secondary stage when the large section of railing collapsed. It happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. Friday. People fell six to eight feet onto the concrete below.
Authorities said there was another concert scheduled for tonight, but it is unclear at this time whether the show will happen.
A video of the shocking incident has emerged online and it shows fans rushing towards the railing, crushing each other in the process and then the railing collapsing.
No word has been given regarding what caused the collapse.
By Saturday afternoon, all the patients – with the exception of the critically injured person – had been released, including patients treated at other hospitals in Camden, officials said.
Emergency responders began arriving, taking injured parties to five hospitals surrounding the city for medical treatment.
More than 40 have been injured after a railing collapsed during Snoop Dogg concert in New Jersey. The concert was later canceled, but Saturday night’s show featuring Salt N Pepa, Bryan Adams and Vanilla Ice will go on as planned, organizers said.
The indoor-outdoor venue, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia’s Center City, has a capacity of 25,000, including indoors seating for 7,000.
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Among the other 41 injured were several fans and some employees of Live Nation, which operates the venue.
