All Four Members Of U.K. Indie Band Killed In Car Crash In Sweden

A tragic incident has taken the lives of all four members of up-and-coming U.K. indie band Viola Beach, along with their manager, just hours after they played their first gig outside of their home country.

BBC News report that Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe, Jack Dakin and manager Craig Tarry were driving outside of Stockholm, Sweden, when their car plunged into the water from a bridge over the Södertälje canal.
Eyewitnesses say that the bridge had been opened to let a boat through, with warning lights flashing and barriers blocking the road, when they saw a car drive “very fast” past stopped vehicles, and crash down into the water.
A man told local media:

“It was very tight. They passed me and in front of me was a taxi and the car smashed the side of this car and then they go in the barrier, then I don’t see anything more of the car, the lights were gone.”
Police divers have since recovered the bodies of five men from the scene.
The band were returning to the U.K. to play a homecoming show when the accident occurred, and had recently announced plans to play at this year’s SXSW festival.
Friends and loved ones have since paid tribute to the men, with the family of Reeves, 19, saying in a statement that they are “heartbroken” by the news:

“River had such talent and such humility, such charm and such innocence it seems so unfair that he can be taken so cruelly from us like this.”
Source: BBC News.
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