Hong Kong Mirror concert tragedy probe focuses on broken cable on giant TV screen
- Contractors who worked on set for concert to be grilled over cable holding giant TV screen up that snapped and injured dancers
- Post told that preliminary examination shows broken cable had no signs of man-made damage
Hong Kong authorities are to investigate if a metal cable used to suspend a massive television screen that crashed onto a stage and injured two dancers at a concert by boy band Mirror was faulty, a government source has said.
The insider said investigators would talk to contractors who worked on the stage set at the Hong Kong Coliseum, check if the cable was imported, identify the supplier and maker and find out what materials were used in its manufacture.
The four-by-four-metre screen, which was suspended over the stage during the band’s performance on July 28, broke free and fell, injuring two supporting performers, one of them critically.
The Post has learned that a preliminary examination of the snapped cable by government scientists found it showed no signs of man-made damage.
Lee Tsz-chun, chairman of a task force set up by the government to investigate the accident, last Friday said one of the possible causes of the incident was that the wire suffered from metal fatigue, which caused it to break.
