Illegal celebration in Norway Bunker party ends for guests with brain damage

(Foto: pic­ture alliance/dpa)
Around 200 young peo­ple are hav­ing fun in Oslo at an ille­gal cel­e­bra­tion. Sud­den­ly car­bon monox­ide gets into the under­ground rooms. Many guests can­not escape in time and lose con­scious­ness. For some of them this has seri­ous con­se­quences. After an ille­gal par­ty in an under­ground bunker in Nor­way, 25 peo­ple sus­pect­ed of car­bon monox­ide poi­son­ing were tak­en to hos­pi­tals. The head of the acute depart­ment at Oslo Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal, Dag Jacob­sen, told Nor­we­gian Radio that many patients had suf­fered brain dam­age from the poi­son­ing. He did not want to say how many were affect­ed. Local media had pre­vi­ous­ly report­ed that five patients were in a crit­i­cal but not life-threat­en­ing con­di­tion. Lost patients are between 20 and 30 years old, reports the NTB news agency, cit­ing a spokesman for the clin­ic. Two of those affect­ed are police offi­cers who have helped to bring the par­ty par­tic­i­pants to safety.

There is an inves­ti­ga­tion against four people

Accord­ing to esti­mates by the police, around 200 young peo­ple took part in the fes­ti­val in the bunker. The light­ing and music sys­tems were oper­at­ed with diesel gen­er­a­tors. When some­one opened the door to the machine room, car­bon monox­ide leaked into the bunker rooms. Many guests could not escape in time and lost con­scious­ness. The only entrance was only a square meter. “This inci­dent could have been Norway’s worst acci­dent in peace­time,” said Jacob­sen. Four peo­ple are now being inves­ti­gat­ed. They are accused of hav­ing gained unau­tho­rized access to the bunker. The police and fire ser­vices ini­tial­ly sus­pect­ed that the gas leak was caused by portable gen­er­a­tors used to pow­er audio sys­tems. Car­bon monox­ide is an odor­less, taste­less and col­or­less gas. Accord­ing to the Fed­er­al Insti­tute for Risk Assess­ment (BfR), if it is inhaled, seri­ous health con­se­quences includ­ing death are pos­si­ble. A spokesman for the fire brigade told Nor­we­gian Broad­cast­ing: “This fes­ti­val could have had dire con­se­quences.” If there had been a fire and the bunker with 200 cel­e­brants would have had to be evac­u­at­ed, there would have been more than 100 deaths, he said.

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