One dead, 6 injured – house collapsed in North Rhine-Westphalia

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In the night from Friday to Saturday, a woman was killed when an apartment building collapsed in Hemer, Germany. Six other people were injured. Police and fire brigade assume a gas explosion.

On Saturday morning, only a woman could be found dead from the remains of the destroyed house in Hemer (North Rhine-Westphalia). Before that, around 3 a.m., a man and a woman were taken from the house seriously injured. They are both in life-threatening condition and will be treated in a clinic after first aid, says fire spokesman Andreas Schulte. Two other injured people had already been recovered Friday evening. A man was high on the rubble and had to be taken to hospital, Schulte said. However, three people were slightly injured.

save upside down
The fire brigade tried to reach the victims quickly and carefully. “We worked our way very carefully so that we could talk to them and touch them, sometimes upside down. That was tedious work,” said Schulte. The rescue work was still ongoing on Saturday morning. A total of eight people lived in the six-party house. It is not yet clear how many were in the house at the time of the collapse. The police assumes that no one could have been home.

“Destruction on this scale never seen before”
Aerial photos show a field of rubble, the building has been completely destroyed. “No stone stands upon another. I have already experienced a number of buildings after a gas explosion, but I have never seen complete destruction on this scale myself,” said the spokesperson for the fire service. Both the fire service and the police currently assume a gas explosion, but the exact cause has not yet been clarified. A structural engineer was ordered to investigate whether and how much damage the neighboring houses had suffered. If an evacuation is necessary, a bus is ready. Emergency services have cordoned off the area around the house.

Hemer is a town of 34,000 inhabitants in Sauerland and the neighboring town of Iserloh.

Source: Krone

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