World News | 1 Person Dead and 8 Believed Trapped After Part of a Hotel on Germany's Mosel River Collapses
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Part of a hotel in western Germany has collapsed, leaving one person dead and another eight believed to be trapped in the wreckage, police said Wednesday.
Berlin, Aug 7 (AP) Part of a hotel in western Germany has collapsed, leaving one person dead and another eight believed to be trapped in the wreckage, police said Wednesday.
Fourteen people were in the hotel in Kroev, a small town on the Mosel River, when one story of the building collapsed at about 11 p.m. Tuesday. Police said five were able to get out of the building unhurt, but another nine were trapped.
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By early Wednesday morning, emergency services had established that one person was dead, but hadn't yet been able to recover the body. They were in contact with some of the eight people believed still to be in the building, some of whom were seriously injured, police said in a statement.
Authorities evacuated 31 people from the area immediately around the damaged building. There was no immediate word on what caused the collapse. (AP)
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