{"id":2392035,"date":"2026-04-27T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2392035"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:06:57","slug":"crew-member-setting-up-shakira-show-suffers-fatal-crushing-injury-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/crew-member-setting-up-shakira-show-suffers-fatal-crushing-injury-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew member setting up Shakira show suffers fatal crushing injury in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkrg.com\/national\/crew-member-setting-up-shakira-show-suffers-fatal-crushing-injury-in-brazil\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wkrg.com\/national\/crew-member-setting-up-shakira-show-suffers-fatal-crushing-injury-in-brazil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NEXSTAR<\/a>) \u2013 A technician working to assemble a stage structure for a Shakira performance in Rio de Janeiro suffered a fatal injury when a portion of his body was crushed on Sunday, officials and event organizers say.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkrg.com\/mobile-county\/i-need-everybody-mobile-businessman-makes-plea-to-politicians-after-being-trapped-in-honduras\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\u2018I need everybody\u2019: Mobile businessman makes plea to politicians after being trapped in Honduras\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>A message posted to the official Instagram account of Todo Mundo No Rio, the free concert series that Shakira is scheduled to headline on May 2, confirmed the worker\u2019s death late on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe event organizers confirm that an accident this Sunday afternoon (April 26) tragically claimed the life of a worker who was assembling the structures for the show,\u201d reads a translation of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXndarzEi41\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the post.<\/a> \u201cFirst responders provided initial care at the scene, and the Fire Department was immediately called to transport the injured person. Unfortunately, the worker passed away at the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shakira performs during the Global Citizen Festival in New York on Sept. 27, 2025. (Photo by Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Military Firefighters Corps in Rio de Janeiro (Corpo de Bombeiros do Rio de Janeiro) said the incident involved a lifting system, and that the worker\u2019s legs had been crushed, according to a statement obtained by the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260427-technician-dies-installing-stage-for-shakira-concert-in-rio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agence France-Presse.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concert organizers said they were \u201coffering our full support\u201d to the technical teams and the victim\u2019s family in the wake of the accident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkrg.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=2650743&amp;action=edit\" class=\"promo-link__link\"><br \/>\n\t\tWill you have an \u2018extra\u2019 payday in May? Here\u2019s how to tell\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Todos Mundo No Rio, now in its third year, is scheduled to take place at the Copacabana beach in Rio on May 2. Shakira had been confirmed as the headliner of this year\u2019s event in February. Past headliners Madonna, in 2024, and Lady Gaga, in 2025, had drawn record audiences, with Gaga\u2019s reportedly attended by somewhere between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brazil-concert-copacabana-lady-gaga-show-c8425c13df8bee50880984329116fc9d#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2.1 million<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/lady-gaga-copacabana-beach-rio-concert-record-breaking-1235961924\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2.5 million<\/a> people, according to tallies touted by local organizers and Lady Gaga\u2019s representatives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content-cta-group\">\n<div class=\"modal--suggest-correction article-content-cta-group__cta\" data-component=\"modal\">\n\t\t\t\t<button data-modal-trigger=\"\" class=\"suggest-correction-button\">Suggest a Correction<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"modal__dialog\">\n<div class=\"modal__dialog-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"modal__close-button\" aria-label=\"Close Modal Content\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" viewbox=\"0 0 16.85 16.875\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<title>Close Modal<\/title>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M9.65 8.454l6.88-7.063a.809.809 0 0 0 0-1.15.782.782 0 0 0-1.14 0L8.52 7.305 1.37.241a.782.782 0 0 0-1.14 0 .809.809 0 0 0 0 1.15l7.15 7.063-7.15 7.063a.809.809 0 0 0 0 1.15.824.824 0 0 0 .6.219.787.787 0 0 0 .59-.219l7.15-7.063 6.87 7.063a.824.824 0 0 0 .6.219.619.619 0 0 0 .54-.219.792.792 0 0 0 0-1.15z\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"modal__dialog-title\">Suggest a Correction<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wkrg.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NEXSTAR) \u2013 A technician working to assemble a stage structure for a Shakira performance in Rio de Janeiro suffered a fatal injury when a portion of his body was crushed on Sunday, officials and event organizers say. \u2018I need everybody\u2019: Mobile businessman makes plea to politicians after being trapped in Honduras A message posted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[466678],"class_list":["post-2392035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-nmw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Crew-member-setting-up-Shakira-show-suffers-fatal-crushing-injury.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392037,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392035\/revisions\/2392037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}