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Part of a hotel has collapsed in western Germany, killing two people and leaving eight others trapped in the rubble.
According to police, those who were killed are believed to be a man and a woman.
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.
Debris are seen after the collapse of a hotel in Kroev, Germany Wednesday
A firefighter carries a woman after a hotel partially collapsed overnight near the banks of Germany’s river Moselle in Kroev, Germany, August 7, 2024.
A firefighter and medical staff help a woman after a hotel partially collapsed overnight near the banks of Germany’s river Moselle
A young couple and their two-year-old child from Urk, Netherlands, were trapped under the rubble, Dutch News reported.
More than two hours later, authorities said they had rescued two women, a man and a child, with the Dutch woman and her toddler being among them.
Her husband, however, is still trapped under the wreckage, according to Dutch outlet Het Urkerland.
Emergency services are having trouble reaching people trapped in the debris as they fear more of the building could collapse. They are communicating with those still under the rubble.
Authorities said that one of the people trapped was a child, who was physically unhurt and in contact with emergency workers.
Footage and images showed the building’s gable roof slanted backwards and parts of the ground floor crushed as emergency services tended to the victims.
Kroev is on a picturesque section of the Mosselle near the larger resort town of Traben-Trarbach. It has about 2,200 inhabitants. The Moselle region attracts tourists for its picturesque towns and vineyards on steep river banks
Image of the hotel before its collapse on Tuesday night, which left one person dead and eight trapped in the rubble
Emergency services at the scene of the collapse, in Korev, a winemaking town on the Mosselle river, Western Germany
A crane is set up after a hotel partially collapsed overnight
A fire department vehicle stands in front of a collapsed hotel in Kroev, Germany
Firefighters, medical and THW (Federal Agency for Technical Relief) staff wait outside, after a hotel partially collapsed overnight
dog is rescued from the partially collapsed hotel in Kroev
A firefighter carries a woman after a hotel partially collapsed overnight
Firefighters and medical staff work at the scene after a hotel partially collapsed overnight near the banks of Germany’s river Moselle in Kroev, Germany
By early Wednesday morning, police said emergency services had established contact with the eight people trapped
In one clip, a woman is carried out of the building by an emergency worker, while another snippet shows a toddler being taken out of the damaged hotel building.
According to regional broadcaster SWR, witnesses reported hearing a bang and seeing a large cloud of dust at the time of the collapse.
Authorities evacuated 31 people from the area immediately around the damaged building. There was no immediate word on what caused the collapse.
Police said it was ‘an extremely demanding deployment, because emergency personnel can only enter the building with the greatest caution’.
They said that some 250 emergency workers, including drone specialists, were at the scene, as well as rescue dogs.
Emergency services outside the partially collapsed hotel in Western Germany
According to police, some 250 emergency workers, including drone specialists, were at the scene, as well as rescue dogs
Reasons for the collapse are not known
According to regional broadcaster SWR, witnesses reported hearing a bang and seeing a large cloud of dust at the time of the collapse
Kroev is on a picturesque section of the Mosel near the larger resort town of Traben-Trarbach. It has about 2,200 inhabitants.
The Moselle region attracts tourists for its picturesque towns and vineyards on steep river banks.
This comes after four people were killed and dozens injured back in May after a building collapsed at a beach resort in Playa de Palma, Majorca.
A terrace of a two-storey building had collapsed through ‘to the basement’ of the building, leaving only the façade standing.
The bar was popular with British and German tourists.
It was later revealed that the newly built terrace was illegally built. The Medusa Beach Club’s owners had unveiled the extension just days before the collapse.
This is a breaking story, more to follow.
