Wooden railings on a balcony give way: Five people are seriously injured - the cause is still unclear
Created: 09/25/2022, 19:49
By: Kathrin Reikowski
Fürstenau (Osnabrück): A balcony in Fürstenau, Lower Saxony, pulls five people down on Sunday.
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Five seriously injured in Lower Saxony: A wooden balcony railing fell off.
The cause is still unclear.
Fürstenau (Lower Saxony) – Tragic accident in Lower Saxony: On Sunday, the wooden railing of a balcony in Fürstenau near Osnabrück fell: five people fell.
They are all badly injured.
According to the police, more details about the cause are still unclear.
"The injured came to various hospitals, one of them by helicopter," said the Osnabrück police department early on Sunday evening.
The fire brigade and police rescue people who have been hit and buried by debris
In addition, a first police report stated that the house concerned was a single-family home.
The police and fire brigade were on site with a large number of pictures from the scene of the accident.
The spokesman could not initially say whether the whole balcony was torn down in the accident.
According to the information, further information on the case will not be published until Monday.
Editor's note: In an earlier version of the article, we wrote that the balcony had broken off and torn five people down, some of them buried.
According to new information from the police, this turned out to be false
.
(dpa/kat)
