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Rivest said security officials rushed to evacuate the area. She said there was possibly about 1,000 people there hours before Radiohead was to take the stage at 9:30 p.m. The doors for the show opened at 5 p.m. and other acts were scheduled to perform. Police said the park wasn't full, but there was a considerable crowd of people already waiting for the show amid sunny and clear conditions. Viljakainen said the Ministry of Labor would investigate to determine the cause of the collapse. There have been a number of concert stage collapses in recent years. In Canada, one person died and several people were injured when the stage went down at Bluesfest in Ottawa last July, and one person died and more than a dozen were injured in 2009 when a powerful windstorm caused the main stage to collapse at the Big Valley Jamboree near Camrose Six people died last August when the stage collapsed at a Sugarland concert in Indianapolis; five died in Belgium when a storm swept in and toppled the stage at the Pukkelpop Festival. ___ Online:
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