{"id":394026,"date":"2017-06-03T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/03\/festival-resumes-after-terror-scare\/"},"modified":"2017-06-03T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:14:15","slug":"festival-resumes-after-terror-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/03\/festival-resumes-after-terror-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival resumes after \u2018terror\u2019 scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/96333291_mediaitem96333287.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of Germany\u2019s biggest music festivals is to resume a day after the site had to be evacuated because of a \u201cpotential terrorist threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers of Rock am Ring said intensive searches had been carried out by police and that performances would resume early on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>About 90,000 people are expected to attend the event near the N\u00fcrburgring race track, which ends on Sunday.<br \/>Last month, a suicide bomb attack at a concert in Manchester killed 22 people.<\/p>\n<p>Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, who played his first-ever solo gig on Tuesday in aid of the victims of the attack in his native Manchester, was among the performers due to play Rock am Ring on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>German police said the bombing had led to changes in planning for Rock am Ring, with the number of security officials increased substantially to 1,200.<\/p>\n<p>Fans had been hoping to see German rock giants Rammstein at the N\u00fcrburg Arena on Friday when they were asked to leave in a \u201ccalm and controlled\u201d way.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the nearby city of Koblenz said they had ordered a temporary halt to the festival as a precaution after receiving \u201ca concrete warning that made it impossible to rule out a terror threat\u201d, but provided no details.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, the festival\u2019s organisers announced it would \u201cgo on\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter intensive searches and sweeps of the complete festival site by the police, the suspicion of a potential terrorist threat has not been confirmed,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSet-up for day 2 of Rock am Ring has commenced and the programme is going to be resumed in the early afternoon. The incredibly disciplined fans deserve all our respect and gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides Rammstein and Liam Gallagher, British acts Bastille and Rag\u2019n\u2019Bone Man had also been due to perform on the main stage on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s headliner is the German punk band Die Toten Hosen, while Sunday\u2019s is the Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Rock am Ring\u2019s final day was cancelled after lightning strikes injured dozens of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Germany\u2019s biggest music festivals is to resume a day after the site had to be evacuated because of a \u201cpotential terrorist threat\u201d. 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