A loud bang startles the residents of Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin on Saturday morning. A house collapses in the middle of town. There is a fatality, the police are looking for a missing person.
Hohen Neuendorf (dpa) - In the partial collapse of an apartment building in Hohen Neuendorf (Brandenburg), a 60-year-old woman died on Saturday morning. According to the police, four other people were injured, one of them seriously. One person is still missing, the police suspect he is under the rubble. A total of seven people lived in the apartment building.
The cause of the accident is still unclear. A local resident reported a "terrible bang" to a reporter from the German Press Agency. After that, it sounded like concrete parts would collapse. The police suspected an explosion. A complete face of the building is in ruins. A rescue dog squad is on site. The 25,000-inhabitant city of Hohen Neuendorf is located in the immediate vicinity of Berlin and not far from the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam.
