Hotel COLLAPSES, killing one particular person and burying eight ohers alive

Part of a hotel has collapsed in western Germany, killing one person, while eight people are believed to be trapped in the rubble.

A floor in the 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.

Of the eight who were trapped ‘some were seriously injured’, with firefighters having established contact with some of them, police said.

Authorities said that of the people trapped included a child, who was physically unhurt and in contact with emergency workers. 

Part of a hotel in Kroev, Western Germany has collapsed, killing one person and leaving eight trapped in the rubble

Emergency services tend to a woman who had been in the hotel when part of it collapsed on Tuesday night

Footage and images showed the building’s gable roof slatend backwards and parts of the ground floor crushed as emergency services tend to the victims.   

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 at the scene of the collapse, in Korev, a winemaking town on the Mosselle river, Western Germany

14 people are said to have been in the hotel when the building collapsed

Authorities have reportedly evacuated 31 people from the area around the damaged building

By early Wednesday morning, police said emergency services had established contact with the eight people trapped

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. 

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