Two dead, one injured ahead of ABBA tribute concert in Sweden
CNN
Two people have died and a third person has been injured after an audience member fell from the seventh floor of a concert hall in Sweden into the crowd below, a police spokesman confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.
The incident occurred Tuesday evening about 30 minutes before the concert was due to begin at 7.30 p.m. local time, the spokesman said.
About 1,000 people had gathered at the Uppsala Konsert and Kongress in Uppsala city, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of the capital, Stockholm, for an ABBA tribute concert, according to police.
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