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Falling Piece of Decor Kills Man on Stage at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A falling piece of decor crushed and killed a man on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre on Saturday night, the theatre administration confirmed
Sputnik

"A piece of decor fell and killed a person during a show at the Bolshoi Theatre", a source told Sputnik.

The spectators said that the tragedy happened minutes into the Sadko opera. The show was stopped immediately, and they were ushered to the exits.
A preliminary probe into the incident was launched.

"The Investigative Committee's Tverskoy inter-district investigative department of the central administrative district in Moscow has opened a preliminary investigation", Yulia Ivanova, a senior committee official, said.

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