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YANGON, April 15 — At least three people were killed with over two dozen others injured on Friday when a water-throwing pandal stage collapsed in Myanmar’s Yangon city, police sources confirmed Saturday.

The accident occurred on the second day of the country’s four-day Thingyan traditional water festival.

The festive activities at the four-storey water-throwing wooden pandal stage, built on a concave ground and accommodates about a hundred overjoyed revelers, is sponsored by Aung Kyaw Kyaw, famous goalkeeper of Myanmar National Football Team, the sources said.

The accident was attributed to the weak withstanding load of the pandal stage designed, on which huge and heavy audio instruments were placed, and revelers jumped heavily in consonancewith the hip hop and rap music which became popular in recent years in Myanmar.

The pandal is one of the 45 set up by private companies and groups along the Inya Road near the Yangon Institute of Economics for holding the festival. The location is known as the most crowded and lively one during the festival in Yangon this year despite far less number of such pandal stages in the rest of Yangon.

It was the first ever accident of its kind in the history of Myanmar’s water festival that claimed human lives from the collapse of pandal stage, Yangon residents said.

The erecting of pandal stage to throw water and give entertainment is a traditional way of Myanmar people to celebrate the festival.

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