New footage of Tomorrowland inferno shows huge smoke cloud and fireworks going off over nearby houses as stage is completely destroyed just days before festival due to start
The annual electronic music festival in the Belgian town of Boom is scheduled to start on Friday and draws in some 100,000 revellers every year.
A huge blaze engulfed the Orbyz main stage on Wednesday evening, with dramatic footage showing the moment the site exploded into a fireball, before a gigantic plume of smoke filled the air.
Now, a new video taken from outside the festival site shows how a huge cloud of dark smoke billowed into the air near a residential area.
Fireworks can also be seen going off uncontrollably in different directions into the sky and over houses.
The blaze last night 'severely damaged' the main stage, organisers said, but no one was injured in the incident.
About 1,000 staff members are understood to have been working at the site at the time of the blaze.
'Due to a serious incident and fire on the Tomorrowland Mainstage, our beloved Mainstage has been severely damaged', festival organisers said in a statement.
'This wasn't just a stage. It was a living, breathing world.
'From the very first sketch on a blank page, to countless hours of conceptual design, artistic collaboration, engineering, crafting, building, every single piece of Orbyz carried part of our soul.
'But, we hold on to the magic Orbyz gave us.To the dreams it carried. To the team who gave their all.'
Organisers said they worked through the night to come up with solutions and today said that the event will go ahead, noting that other parts of the festival venue, stages or areas were not impacted.
The local fire department has declared the site safe and a decision will now be made about whether to demolish the stage before the festival officially kicks off on Friday.
The festival's campground also opened today, as scheduled.
Dozens of DJs and electronic music artists such as David Guetta and Martin Garrix are set to perform at Tomorrowland, which is considered to be one of Europe's largest music festivals.
There are 14 other stages at the festival, all much smaller than the Orbyz structure.
The fire started at around 6pm local time yesterday.
Some residents were evacuated as firefighters worked to stop the flames from reaching the surrounding residential area and woodland.
Tomorrowland was started in Belgium in 2005 and has become one of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in the world.
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