Reports: Viola Beach Killed In Car Accident

Band were on tour in Sweden...

Reports are coming in that Warrington band Viola Beach have been killed in a car crash while touring Sweden.

The Mirror reports that five British nationals have been killed in an accident on the E4 Highway in Stockholm.

The car is thought to have crashed through a barrier and plunged into the Södertälje canal, killing the band and their manager.

Tributes are flooding in on social media, with the Warrington group recently releasing a stellar single on Communion. Viola Beach played a Clash-associated RISE Festival launch at Boxpark, London late last year – four nice, decent kids, who were loving every minute of being a band.

Enormously sad news – our thoughts are with their loved ones.

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