It will take 10 days to repair the tear in the newly installed roof of the Montreal Stadium officials said Tuesday.

However, most Montrealers would prefer that the Big O was torn down and put out of its misery.

Five people suffered minor injuries when part of the roof of Montreal's Olympic Stadium has collapsed, under heavy snow.

It happened Monday afternoon, as workers prepared for an automotive show at the building. There were about 200 people in the stadium setting up for the show when a small section of the snow-covered roof caved in.

"It sounded like war" one witness told CBC News, describing the noise made by the collapse.

The roof was installed last year, replacing the old retractable one which didn't work. It cost $37 million.

At a news conference Andre Tetrault of the Olympic Installation Board said that only one of the 63 panels that caved in and that it had nothing to do with the structure of the stadium.

Tetrault explained that the roof was not completed and that there were still two stages left in its installation.

The stadium, is home to the Montreal Expos baseball team, has been plagued with problems since it was built for the 1976 Summer Games.

In previous incidents, chunks of outer wall of the stadium crashed to the ground but no one was injured.

There's been a record snowfall in Montreal in recent days.