HONG KONG : Chaotic scenes greeted Hong Kong pop idol Andy Lau
when a riot broke out at one of his concerts in China resulting in
dozens of people being injured, a press report said Tuesday.
The concert hall in Wuhan was said to be packed with fans of the
43-year-old heart-throb, currently on a world tour, leaving 50,000
fans stuck outside waiting to get in, according to the Oriental
Daily News.
The fans outside turned angry when a glass door was closed
preventing any more people entering the venue.
Scuffles broke out and fans smashed open the glass door and rushed
inside the hall.
Anti-riot police were called in to calm the crowd.
Some fans suffered cuts during the frenzied panic and more than a
dozen others, including a 14-year-old girl, were trampled in the
stampede.
The situation inside was just as chaotic as the crowd tried to push
towards the stage.
Lau called for them to stay calm but to no avail, forcing the
singer to end his show early.
Lau, one of Asia's biggest stars, was later whisked away secretly
in a fire engine, the paper added.
Lau is a leading star in the world of Canto-pop, the Cantonese
language hybrid of Chinese ballads and Western pop, and an
award-winning actor who has starred in some of Hong Kong's most
critically acclaimed films including Infernal Affairs. - AFP
