This is probably one of the saddest news in rock music scene lately as members of band Goodbye to Gravity are included in the list of casualties in the Romanian nightclub fire tragedy, according to a report from Loudwire.
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The A.D. Xenopol high school in Bucharest said Wednesday on its Facebook page that student Elena Nitu, 18, had died in a hospital in Liverpool late Tuesday. He died on Wednesday at the hospital after treatment in the specialist burns unit. Drummer Bodgan Enache lost his life earlier this week, while guitarists Vlad Telea and Mihal Alexandru didn’t survive the blaze at the Colectiv Club in Romania on October 30. He was being transferred to a clinic facility in France but died when the plane landed in Paris.
The band’s lead singer Andrei Galut is now treated in a hospital in the Netherlands.
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Authorities say 76 people remain hospitalized in Bucharest after the fire, 24 of them in serious or critical condition caused by burns. Police arrested three owners of the nightclub at the start of November for suspected manslaughter due to poor safety procedures, with the Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta later resigning after 20,000 people took to the streets in protest over the events. Cristian Popescu Piedone and the two other men have now been released from custody, but could still face charges of abuse of office. The wood in the building caught fire quickly, and the small exit prevented people from escaping.
