Hotel COLLAPSES, killing one person and burying eight others alive including young family
International news
Part of a hotel has collapsed in western Germany, killing one person, as eight people are believed to be trapped in the rubble.
A floor in the Reichsschenke Zum Ritter Götz hotel in Kroev, a winemaking town on the Mosselle River some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed at around 11:00 pm on Tuesday, police said in a statement.
Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out unhurt.
By early Wednesday morning, emergency services had established that one person was dead, but hadn’t yet been able to recover the body. At that point, eight people were believed still to be in the building, some of them seriously injured.
More than two hours later, authorities said they had rescued two women, a man and a 2-year-old child, German news agency dpa reported. Their conditions weren’t immediately clear.