Shocking moment tsunami rips through stage as band Seventeen performs at Indonesian beach resort
- The band was playing at a beach resort in Tanjung Lesung, one of the tourist centres in Pandeglang.
- In a tearful Instagram post, frontman Riefian Fajarsyah said the band’s bassist and road manager had been killed
Riefian Fajarsyah, lead vocalist of the band “Seventeen” later posted an emotional video to his 260,000 Instagram followers in which he said the group’s bassist and road manager were killed.
The band were playing Saturday night to a large crowd in a marquee at the Tanjung Lesung Beach Resort on the western tip of Java when the wall of water hit.
On the video, fans can be seen clapping and cheering before a wave rips under the stage, sending the band members and their equipment crashing into the men and women dancing at the front.
The shocking video then suddenly stops.
Fighting back tears and wiping his eyes, Fajarsyah said two more band members, a crew member and his wife were still missing.
“We lost our bassist Bani and our road manager Oki,” he said in the video, in which he is wearing a green shirt with the band’s Seventeen logo stitched into the chest.