Major scare in one of the busiest spots in Seville. Shortly before 1:00 p.m., the tent of a traveling cinema installed in the Alameda de Hércules gave way due to the wind and the rain falling on a group of schoolchildren who were inside. Three students were injured, two of them have been taken to the hospital, including a girl who was trapped under the structure, although everything indicates that her injuries are not serious, and a third who was taken to a hospital. health.
As this newspaper has learned, the Planetarium Go attraction (a company from Jaén) was in the area since the beginning of February and had all the permits in order, among which is a favorable report after the inspection visit by the Prevention Service. and fire extinguishing.
Emergencies received the first notices at 12:47 p.m. A call explained that a part of a traveling planetarium (an installation with a 360-degree spherical movie screen) had fallen on a group of schoolchildren. Quickly, from the coordinating room, the Health Emergency Center 061, the Firefighters, the National Police, the Local Police and the Cecop have been activated.
In total, between students and teachers, the people who were in this school activity amounted to 55, all from the IES Julio Verne de Pino Montando, as detailed by the Seville Education delegation. The children are 1st year ESO students, aged between 12 and 13 years old.
Three minors have been injured in this event, one of them became trapped under the structure and was rescued by a teacher and other people who did not hesitate to help, including several workers from nearby businesses.
According to some witnesses, pockets of water formed on the cinema tent on the days it rained in Seville. Today, specifically, the State Meteorological Agency had activated the yellow alert due to heavy rainfall in the city of Seville, something that ended up taking its toll on the structure, which collapsed and fell to the ground.
The activity, which had kept its attraction open to the public since January 9, planned to close its doors next week to move to another point in Granada.
One of the witnesses who first arrived at the area of ??the event was Daniel Rueda, a restaurant worker in Alameda, who explained that he approached the installation of the aforementioned portable cinema when he heard “a very loud noise”, checking along with several more people who were around that the tent of this planetarium had collapsed on it. This, as he has said, at a time when “very heavy” rain had fallen.
Rueda has reported that at first they thought that “there was no one inside”, although at the moment they realized that “it was full of children” between ten or twelve years old from a school group, who have been leaving the cinema helped by the people gathered in the area.
Thanks to a teacher’s warning, according to their story, they learned that there was “a girl trapped” between the canvas and metal materials of the tent. After various maneuvers, “removing and breaking” the canvas and removing metal pieces, it was possible for the minor to leave the damaged facility, and she was one of the people evacuated in a conventional ambulance.
