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Balcony falls: Nine people, some seriously injured

2021-06-27T12:31:16.359Z


On the night of Sunday a serious accident occurred in Horn-Bad Meinberg (North Rhine-Westphalia). Nine people were injured when a balcony collapsed.


On the night of Sunday a serious accident occurred in Horn-Bad Meinberg (North Rhine-Westphalia).

Nine people were injured when a balcony collapsed.

Horn-Bad Meinberg - Shortly after midnight, the wooden balcony on the second floor of an apartment building in Horn-Bad Meinberg suddenly cracked through.

At the time, according to the police, a group of nine young women and men between the ages of 21 and 24 were on the balcony.

First the wooden floor on the second floor collapsed, then they fell through the floor of the balcony on the first floor and hit the floor with the wooden beams.

The emergency call to the fire brigade was received at around 0.24 a.m.

Balcony collapse in Horn-Bad Meinberg: four people trapped under rubble

Four people were trapped by the rubble.

Firefighters freed them.

According to the police, one person had to be rescued from a piece of rubble with a turntable ladder at the height of the first floor.

Ambulances then drove them to clinics. 

Nine people were injured in the accident, five of them seriously.

A seriously injured person is in mortal danger, said a police spokesman on Sunday.

The fire brigade was on site with a large contingent of 70 emergency services, plus seven ambulances and five emergency doctors.

Why the balcony collapsed was initially unclear, the police are now investigating.

(ml / dpa)

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Source: merkur

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